Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACEThe populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
More Horace Quotes
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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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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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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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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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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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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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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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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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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