To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACEI would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
More Horace Quotes
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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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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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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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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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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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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