Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACEThe wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
More Horace Quotes
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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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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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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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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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Anger is brief madness
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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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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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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