The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACELife gives nothing to man without labor.
More Horace Quotes
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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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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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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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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Who’s started has half finished.
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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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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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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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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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