He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
Tag: Horace
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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.