He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACEHe who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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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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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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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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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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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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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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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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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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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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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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