What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACEWhen evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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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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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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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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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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