A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACENever without a shilling in my purse.
More Horace Quotes
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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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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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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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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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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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 gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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By the favour of the heavens
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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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