Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACERule your mind or it will rule you.
More Horace Quotes
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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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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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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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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Anger is brief madness
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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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A good resolve will make any port.
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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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By the favour of the heavens
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