What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACEGet money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
More Horace Quotes
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Where 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.
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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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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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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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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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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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