When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACEIt is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
More Horace Quotes
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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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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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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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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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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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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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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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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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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