What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACEHe who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
More Horace Quotes
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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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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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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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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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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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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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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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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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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