What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACETake as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
More Horace Quotes
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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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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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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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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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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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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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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One cannot know everything.
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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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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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