I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACEDeath’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
More Horace Quotes
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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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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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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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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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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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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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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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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