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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
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
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life 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
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same

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