Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACEIt is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
More Horace Quotes
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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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Who’s started has half finished.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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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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A good resolve will make any port.
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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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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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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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