Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACELet him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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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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Anger is brief madness
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By the favour of the heavens
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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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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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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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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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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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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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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