It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACEScribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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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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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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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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By the favour of the heavens
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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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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