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.
HORACEThe wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
More Horace Quotes
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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By the favour of the heavens
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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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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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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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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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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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