With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACEWhat impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
More Horace Quotes
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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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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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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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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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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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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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