The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACENor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
More Horace Quotes
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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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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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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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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By the favour of the heavens
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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