What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACENor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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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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By the favour of the heavens
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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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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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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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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