In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACEIt is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
More Horace Quotes
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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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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Gold will be slave or master.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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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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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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By the favour of the heavens
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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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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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Joys 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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