Anger is brief madness
HORACESapere aude. Dare to be wise.
More Horace Quotes
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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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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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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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.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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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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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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