Horace Quotes - Page 2

Better to accept whatever happens.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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Now is the time to drink!
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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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Faults are soon copied.
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Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)
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So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits,On waking, you'll be tortured by envy or lust.Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, whenIf it's your mind, you put off the cure till next year?Who's started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!
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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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The story is told of yourself.
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Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)
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Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)
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Anger is a brief madness.
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Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)
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Moreover, you can’t stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truantor fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.But it’s no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels
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Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)
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Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)
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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
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Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.
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He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.
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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
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In love there are two evils: war and peace.
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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he who is greedy is always in want
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
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Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
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