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Adversity
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Adversity
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Beauty
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Beginnings
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Death
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Envy
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Excellence
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Fool
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while. -- Horace

Freedom
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Idleness
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Justice
Fidelity is the sister of justice. -- Horace

Learning
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Speech
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. -- Horace

Success
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Time
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Wealth
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. -- Horace

Writing
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.