Make a fortune; a fortune, if you can, honestly; if not, a fortune by any means.

Si possis, recte, si non, quocumque modo rem.

Horace

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 1.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 1.

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I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 30.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk, 3, no. 30.

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Another quote about Work

When hearts are high the time will fly, so whistle while you work.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Directed by David Hand, Walt Disney Productions, 1937.

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Another quote from Classical antiquity

With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Jesus

Matthew 19:26

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 19:26).

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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if we only face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open."

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Copernicus, Nicolaus. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres]. Nuremburg: Johannes Petreius, 1543, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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Copernicus, Nicolaus. On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres. Prometheus, 1995, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 10.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 10.

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