Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACEThe gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
More Horace Quotes
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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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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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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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 man perfect to the finger tips.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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