Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACEGlory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
More Horace Quotes
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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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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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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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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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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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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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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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