The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACEIt is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
More Horace Quotes
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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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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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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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 explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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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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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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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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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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