A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACELife gives nothing to man without labor.
More Horace Quotes
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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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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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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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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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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 have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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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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There is a middle ground in things.
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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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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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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