Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACEBy the favour of the heavens
More Horace Quotes
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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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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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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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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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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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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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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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There is a middle ground in things.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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By the favour of the heavens
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