What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACETo please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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By the favour of the heavens
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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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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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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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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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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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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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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