Horace Quotes, Latin Quotes, Blind Quotes

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

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In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

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

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Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

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Mistakes are their own instructors

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Get money first; virtue comes after.

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The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

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Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

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Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

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

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In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

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There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

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Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

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It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

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One cannot know everything.

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