Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACEPeople hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
More Horace Quotes
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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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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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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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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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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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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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There is a middle ground in things.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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