Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACEOften 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.]
More Horace Quotes
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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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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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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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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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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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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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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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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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