The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACEThe gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACENot gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACERule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACENot to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACEPunishment follows close on crime.
HORACEA man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACEMulta ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACEPale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACEDon’t waste the opportunity.
HORACEA good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACEIn adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACEA good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACEScribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACEThere is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACESad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACEDeath’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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