A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACESuperfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
More Horace Quotes
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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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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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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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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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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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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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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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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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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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Who’s started has half finished.
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