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.
HORACEGet money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
More Horace Quotes
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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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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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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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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A good resolve will make any port.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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By the favour of the heavens
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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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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