Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACEIn neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
More Horace Quotes
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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There is a middle ground in things.
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Anger is brief madness
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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One cannot know everything.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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