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

Horace

The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
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
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
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

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