It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACEA man perfect to the finger tips.
More Horace Quotes
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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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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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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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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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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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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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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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