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Horace

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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Brain Hard Work Nail
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
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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Country House People
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
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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Essence Soul Yesterday
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
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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Owner Poor Thief
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy

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