The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACESapere aude. Dare to be wise.
More Horace Quotes
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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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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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Anger is brief madness
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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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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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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