A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACEScribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
More Horace Quotes
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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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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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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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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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Anger is brief madness
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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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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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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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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