The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACEThe gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACEIn adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACEDon’t waste the opportunity.
HORACEWhat it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACEA word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACENever without a shilling in my purse.
HORACEWhat prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACETo please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACEIt is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACEI have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACELife gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACEHow slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACEThe good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACEWhere 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.
HORACEMoney is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACEMulta ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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