In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACEJoys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
More Horace Quotes
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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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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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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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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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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