To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACEWith you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
More Horace Quotes
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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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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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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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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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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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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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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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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