When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACEA word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
More Horace Quotes
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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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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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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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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There is a middle ground in things.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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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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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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