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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
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People

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