Horace Quotes, Money Quotes, Men Quotes

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

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The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

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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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Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

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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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Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

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Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

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Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

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

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Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

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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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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

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Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

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Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

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The covetous are always in want.

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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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