What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACEWherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
More Horace Quotes
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Who’s started has half finished.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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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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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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Gold will be slave or master.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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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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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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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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