It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACEThe years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
More Horace Quotes
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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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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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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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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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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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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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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One cannot know everything.
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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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