By the favour of the heavens
HORACENor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
More Horace Quotes
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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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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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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One cannot know everything.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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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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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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