What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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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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Anger is brief madness
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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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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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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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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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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Gold will be slave or master.
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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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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