Horace Quotes, Wine Quotes, Water Quotes

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

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Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

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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 shine, the 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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As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

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Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

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Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

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Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

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There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

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An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

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Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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The covetous are always in want.

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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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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

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Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

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