The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACEMoney, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
More Horace Quotes
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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By the favour of the heavens
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Who’s started has half finished.
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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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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 wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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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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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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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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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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