What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACEA good scare is worth more than good advice.
More Horace Quotes
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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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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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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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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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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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 wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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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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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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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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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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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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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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