What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACEI would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
More Horace Quotes
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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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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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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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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Where 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.
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