When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACEOne cannot know everything.
More Horace Quotes
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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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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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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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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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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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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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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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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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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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There is a middle ground in things.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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