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.
HORACEMulta 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.)
More Horace Quotes
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Who’s started has half finished.
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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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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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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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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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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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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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