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.
HORACENot to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
More Horace Quotes
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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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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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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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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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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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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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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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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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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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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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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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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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