Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACEGold will be slave or master.
More Horace Quotes
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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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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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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