Horace Quotes, Passion Quotes, Men Quotes

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

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Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

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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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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!

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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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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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Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

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It is not permitted that we should know everything.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

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An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

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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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