Anger is brief madness
HORACEThe envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
More Horace Quotes
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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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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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Multa 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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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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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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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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