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.
HORACEIt is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
More Horace Quotes
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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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.]
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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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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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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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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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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