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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love 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

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