He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACENor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
More Horace Quotes
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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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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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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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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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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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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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Anger is brief madness
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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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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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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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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Punishment follows close on crime.
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Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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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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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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