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.
HORACESuperfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
More Horace Quotes
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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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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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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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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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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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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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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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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