With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACETo have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
More Horace Quotes
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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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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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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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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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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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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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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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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A good resolve will make any port.
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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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