Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACELife gives nothing to man without labor.
More Horace Quotes
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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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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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One cannot know everything.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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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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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Anger is brief madness
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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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