What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACEIt is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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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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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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One cannot know everything.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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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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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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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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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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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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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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