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.
HORACEWho’s started has half finished.
More Horace Quotes
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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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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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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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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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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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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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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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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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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