A good resolve will make any port.
HORACEThe years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
More Horace Quotes
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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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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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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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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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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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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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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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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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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