Horace Quotes, Mind Quotes, Cheerful Quotes

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

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I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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Luck cannot change birth.

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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

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The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

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The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

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Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

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We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

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Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

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The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

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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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The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

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Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

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In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

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Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

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