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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Horace

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
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
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious

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