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

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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
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
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy

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