What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACENot gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
More Horace Quotes
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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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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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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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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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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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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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