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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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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End 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
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
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
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational

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