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.)
HORACEScribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
More Horace Quotes
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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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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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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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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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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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 explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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