Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACEOften turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
More Horace Quotes
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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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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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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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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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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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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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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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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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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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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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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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