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Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").


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What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Dare to be wise.
(Sapere Aude)
ANONYMOUS He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE sapere aude.
IMMANUEL KANT Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogita...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.
HORACE Well begun is half done.
ARISTOTLE When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the e...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough....
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest avaro quod h...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's ...
IMMANUEL KANT He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
FLACCUS He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.
ORRIN WOODWARD We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines ...
HAROLD HOLZER He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) If Well begun means Half done, then Possible means Half + quarter done. Then just do the remaining q...
SATHESH KUMAR M The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die.
E. T. TRIGG He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) He is the English Horace,
ALEXANDER POPE He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dan...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A well begun is half ended.
A. C. BENSON A well begun is half ended.
PLATO I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
HAROLD HOLZER Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat.,...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. [Fr., Les rivieres son...
BLAISE PASCAL Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; d...
ÉLIPHAS LéVI Half of them don't know who the hell he is.
WILLIAM BRATTON He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said E...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR He who is well prepared has half won the battle.
PROVERB I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.
DAVID LEAN Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Who destroys is destroyed. Who builds is built. (Qui détruit se détruit. Qui construit se construi...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
KARL KRAUS Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make ...
IMMANUEL KANT Who has dog doesn't bark. (Qui a chien - N'aboie pas)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; ther...
CHARLES SPURGEON He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]
GABRIEL MEURIER MEURIR OR MURIER He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]
GABRIEL MEURIER (MEURIR OR MURIER) You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wi...
LEWIS B. SMEDES I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.
DAVID LEAN He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) The process has begun. This will take about one-and-a-half months. We are trying to do it faster.
GEORGE FERNANDES Anything done for another is done for oneself. [Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.]
POPE BONIFACE VIII He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors. ...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.
CHRIS FARLEY You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the...
HERMANN HESSE A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTë Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign. [Fr., Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.]
VICENTIUS LUPANUS (VINCENT DE LA LOUPE) A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
HOMER He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat, Docet negare.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Discover the delights of innovation & dream, you have yet not discovered.The future belongs to those...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Dare to dream. Don’t just let your dreams sit in your mind and rot. If you have a big dream or vis...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Often a silent face has voice and words. [Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTE He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God...
ISAAC NEWTON Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEY Somebody scoffed, "Oh, you'll never to that --/ At least no one ever has done it";/ But he took off ...
EDGAR A. GUEST He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.] - credited to Publius Syrus ...
JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.] - credited to Publius Syrus ...
JOHN MILTON He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. [Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait longtemps...
PIERRE CORNEILLE A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the o...
EMILY BRONTE Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be know...
GALILEO GALILEI Magic isn't done; it's only just begun!
NICK NEWBERRY Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Diff...
MATTHEW GOLDFINGER He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adfli...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.]
LOUIS XI Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la mé...
VOLTAIRE To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire...
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS TERTULLIAN He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has ...
SINCLAIR LEWIS He who defines himself can't know who he really is.
He who has power over others can't empower ...
LAO TZU If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he ...
THOMAS WOLFE Never fear failure.Never regret wrong being done.Those who dare to take by horn the failure & wrong ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain...
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Kemp has an amazing work ethic. If there is something he needs to know to get the job done, he learn...
COURTNEY MOORE He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning ...
, TO THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS, COLUMBUS, OHIO Unlimited opportunities awaits the person who dare to seek.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
FRED ESTABROOK

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HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
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HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
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HORACE You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers...
HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
HORACE One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instr...
HORACE Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
HORACE How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which c...
HORACE Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
HORACE Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...
HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HORACE Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
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HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
HORACE He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot...
HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they wi...
HORACE The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the light...
HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
HORACE Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity ...
HORACE Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
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HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
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Or the fro...
HORACE Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
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HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
HORACE I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
HORACE Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
HORACE I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
HORACE The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poe...
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
HORACE Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
HORACE He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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HORACE Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
HORACE In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
HORACE Buy the rumor and sell the fact
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HORACE Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of w...
HORACE He who is greedy is always in want.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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HORACE It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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HORACE Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
HORACE Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...
HORACE The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous ...
HORACE Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
HORACE To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come a...
HORACE The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
HORACE Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
HORACE There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right canno...
HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
HORACE Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
HORACE Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
HORACE I will not add another word.
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HORACE Faults are soon copied.
HORACE In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HORACE In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
HORACE A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doi...
HORACE The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
HORACE You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m...
HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
HORACE The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
HORACE Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HORACE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
HORACE I shall not altogether die.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
HORACE Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine
HORACE Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it ...
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