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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise

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