Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACEJoys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
More Horace Quotes
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Who’s started has half finished.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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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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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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