Horace Quotes

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
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He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.
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Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
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Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.
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The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
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Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
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Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
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Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
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We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
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Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.
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Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
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The man is either mad or he is making verses.
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Let your poem be kept nine years.
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A picture is a poem without words.
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Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
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In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
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No one is content with his own lot.
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He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
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Live mindful of how brief your life is.
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Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
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When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.
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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
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Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
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We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
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The man is either mad or he is making verses.
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Let your poem be kept nine years.
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A picture is a poem without words.
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Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
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In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
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No one is content with his own lot.
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He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
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Live mindful of how brief your life is.
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Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
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When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.
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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
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One cannot know everything.
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Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
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I teach that all men are mad.
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Never despair.
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And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!
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You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
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He who is greedy is always in want.
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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.
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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
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Anger is a short madness.
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Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.
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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
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If matters go badly now they will not always be so.
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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!
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Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.
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In times of stress be bold and valiant.
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Well begun is half done.
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A picture is a poem without words.
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Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
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Whatever advice you give be short.
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Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
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