What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACEGet money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
More Horace Quotes
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Anger is brief madness
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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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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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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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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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Nor 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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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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