The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACEMulta 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.)
More Horace Quotes
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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One cannot know everything.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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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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By the favour of the heavens
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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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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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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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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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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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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Anger is brief madness
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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