A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACESeize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
More Horace Quotes
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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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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Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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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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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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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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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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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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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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A good resolve will make any port.
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