What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACEPale 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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There is a middle ground in things.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Anger is brief madness
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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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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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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