In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACETo please great men is not the last degree of praise.
More Horace Quotes
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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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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Often 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.]
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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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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gold will be slave or master.
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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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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 to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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