Gold will be slave or master.
HORACEWith you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
More Horace Quotes
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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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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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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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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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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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 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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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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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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