Horace Quotes, Life Quotes

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

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What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

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O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

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He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

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A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]

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

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It is grievous to be caught.

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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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I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

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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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All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

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Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

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Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

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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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Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.

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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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A man perfect to the finger tips.

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Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]

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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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