Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACELet the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
More Horace Quotes
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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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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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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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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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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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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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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There is a middle ground in things.
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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One cannot know everything.
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