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.]
HORACEScribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
More Horace Quotes
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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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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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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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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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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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Anger is brief madness
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A good resolve will make any port.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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