The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACEA word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
More Horace Quotes
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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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Punishment follows close on crime.
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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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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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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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Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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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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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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