In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Often 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.]
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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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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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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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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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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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Who’s started has half finished.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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