Horace Quotes, Riches Quotes

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

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Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

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It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

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Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

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Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

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Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

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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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As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

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In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

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The same night awaits us all.

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You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

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The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

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No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

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If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

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The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

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