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.
HORACENot to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
More Horace Quotes
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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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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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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 arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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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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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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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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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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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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