A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACEThere is a middle ground in things.
More Horace Quotes
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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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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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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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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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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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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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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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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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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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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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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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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