When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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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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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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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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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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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.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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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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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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