Horace Quotes, Victory Quotes, Moments Quotes

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

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I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

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To grow a philosopher's beard.

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Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

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Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

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Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

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Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

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Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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Better to accept whatever happens.

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Most virtue lies between two vices.

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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

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Those that are little, little things suit.

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It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

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The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

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Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

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Punishment follows close on crime.

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