Horace Quotes, Years Quotes, Wind Quotes

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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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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An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

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As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

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Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

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

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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

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Amiability shines by its own light.

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

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

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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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One Sallow does not make Summer.

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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

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Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

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

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