The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACEJoys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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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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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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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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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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