Horace Quotes, Arabia Quotes, Ease Quotes

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

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Half is done when the beginning is done.

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It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

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While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

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Luck cannot change birth.

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

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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 illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

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In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

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Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

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In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

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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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Music is an incitement to love.

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By the favour of the heavens

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