Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACERemember to be calm in adversity.
More Horace Quotes
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Multa 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.)
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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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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One cannot know everything.
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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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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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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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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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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.
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