What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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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Punishment follows close on crime.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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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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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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