Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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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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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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Anger is brief madness
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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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One cannot know everything.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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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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Gold will be slave or master.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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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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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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