The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACESapere aude. Dare to be wise.
More Horace Quotes
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Multa 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.)
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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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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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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