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"Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)"
Horace
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."
"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)"
"Rule your mind or it will rule you."
"Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith"
"He who is greedy is always in want"
"In love there are two evils: war and peace."
"Anger is a brief madness."
"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone"
"A picture is a poem without words."
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
"Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!")."
"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."
"Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter."
"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
"Whatever advice you give, be brief."
"He who feared that he would not succeed sat still."
"Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start"
"Now is the time to drink!"
"Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were"
"Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants."
"Even as we speak, time speeds swiftly away."
"Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant."
"You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back."
"What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure."
"Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings."
"Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit."
"Faults are soon copied."
"In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war."
"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."
"Let him live under the open sky, and dangerously."
"How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise."
"What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled."
"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."
"Then come at once and pause for breath In chasing wealth. Remembering death And death's dark fires, mix, while you may, Method and madness, work and play. Folly is sweet, well-timed."
"The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance."
"I shall not wholly die and a great part of me will escape the grave"
"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the "body "drags the mind down with it."
"You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers"
"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace"
"Struggling to be brief I become obscure."
"Humour is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues."
"Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."
"I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious."
"Treacherous ashes hide The fires through which you stride"
"This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist."
"If you wish me to weep, you yourself Must first feel grief."
"Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat. (Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)"
"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!"