Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACERule your mind or it will rule you.
More Horace Quotes
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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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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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Anger is brief madness
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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A good resolve will make any port.
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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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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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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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