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.
HORACEWhat do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
More Horace Quotes
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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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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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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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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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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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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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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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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