The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACEThe populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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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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Punishment follows close on crime.
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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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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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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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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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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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Who’s started has half finished.
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Anger is brief madness
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