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Horace

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
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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Home Life Night
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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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Last Poverty Wing
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
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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Death King Tower

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