Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACELet the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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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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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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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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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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There is a middle ground in things.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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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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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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