The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACERule your mind or it will rule you.
More Horace Quotes
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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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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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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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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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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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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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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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