The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACEScribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
More Horace Quotes
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Who’s started has half finished.
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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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There is a middle ground in things.
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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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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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