Horace Quotes, Care Quotes, Wealth Quotes

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

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A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

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Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

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One Sallow does not make Summer.

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

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He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]

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We are all gathered to the same fold.

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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

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Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

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However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

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Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

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Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

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Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

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Nature is harmony in discord.

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Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

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Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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