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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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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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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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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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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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 neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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