There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACEThe envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
More Horace Quotes
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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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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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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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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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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By the favour of the heavens
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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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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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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