It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACELet him who has enough ask for nothing more.
More Horace Quotes
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Anger is brief madness
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Gold will be slave or master.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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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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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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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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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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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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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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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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