Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACEHow slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
More Horace Quotes
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Who’s started has half finished.
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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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There is a middle ground in things.
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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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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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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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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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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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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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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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