I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACEA man perfect to the finger tips.
More Horace Quotes
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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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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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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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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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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Anger is brief madness
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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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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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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