Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACEPunishment follows close on crime.
More Horace Quotes
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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One cannot know everything.
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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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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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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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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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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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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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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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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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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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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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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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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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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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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Anger is brief madness
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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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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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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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