What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACEDon’t waste the opportunity.
More Horace Quotes
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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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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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One cannot know everything.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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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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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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