Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACENor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
More Horace Quotes
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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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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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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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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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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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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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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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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