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

Horace

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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
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
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
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
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

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