When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACEThe envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
More Horace Quotes
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Anger is brief madness
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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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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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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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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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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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By the favour of the heavens
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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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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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