Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Quote by Horace

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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

You [the people] are a many-headed beast.

You [the people] are a many-headed beast.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers...

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers...

For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire.

For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans...

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans...

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed...

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed...

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the...

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the...

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you...

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you...