Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACEI have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
More Horace Quotes
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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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One cannot know everything.
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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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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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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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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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Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Who’s started has half finished.
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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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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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