Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACESapere aude. Dare to be wise.
More Horace Quotes
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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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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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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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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Who’s started has half finished.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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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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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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