Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACEPeople hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
More Horace Quotes
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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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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Gold will be slave or master.
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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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By the favour of the heavens
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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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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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