Horace Quotes, Mind Quotes, Care Quotes

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

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Dull winter will re-appear.

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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

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Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

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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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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

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Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

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He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

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The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

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Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

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The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

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Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

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God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

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While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

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High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

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Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

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Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

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