To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Quotes from Epistles — Horace
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
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You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.
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At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.
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Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio.
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Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
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What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Sky, not spirit, do they change, those who cross the sea.
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It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
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He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
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We are but numbers, born to consume resources.
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Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?
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My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
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Attribution
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