Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACEScribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
More Horace Quotes
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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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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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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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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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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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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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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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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