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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember

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