A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACEThe good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
More Horace Quotes
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By the favour of the heavens
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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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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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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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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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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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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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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