Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACEPeople hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
More Horace Quotes
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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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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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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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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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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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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Anger is brief madness
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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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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Who’s started has half finished.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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