"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how……" — Horace
"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not."
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499 Quotes by Horace
Horace has 499 quotes on this site.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness…
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not…
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives…
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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More Handmaiden Quotes
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
— Karl Kraus
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Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
— Branch Rickey
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The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary…
— Philip Johnson
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Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
— Unknown Author
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Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and…
— Stanley Fish
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
— Alexander Cockburn
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She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind.…
— Edna O'Brien
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Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
— Ravi Zacharias
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The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
— Eric Temple Bell
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Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes…
— Learned Hand
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity,…
— Israel Shenker
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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
— Mark Twain
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