Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACEThere is a middle ground in things.
More Horace Quotes
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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By the favour of the heavens
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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