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.]
HORACETo have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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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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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Anger is brief madness
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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