Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACEGlory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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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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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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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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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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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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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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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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