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.)
HORACEWhere there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
More Horace Quotes
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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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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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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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