Horace Quotes, Endeavour Quotes

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

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Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

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Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

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Words challenge eternity.

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Better to accept whatever happens.

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

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The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

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Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

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If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

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This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

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A picture is a poem without words

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That best of blessings, a contented mind.

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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

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Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

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In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

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Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

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Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]

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