To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACESeize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
More Horace Quotes
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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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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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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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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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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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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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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