The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACEHe 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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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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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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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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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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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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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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Who’s started has half finished.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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