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.
HORACEHe makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
More Horace Quotes
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There is a middle ground in things.
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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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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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One cannot know everything.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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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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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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