Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACESeest 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.
More Horace Quotes
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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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There is a middle ground in things.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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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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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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