Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACEJoys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
More Horace Quotes
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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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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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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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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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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