What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACELeuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
More Horace Quotes
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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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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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Who’s started has half finished.
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Anger is brief madness
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There is a middle ground in things.
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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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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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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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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