Horace Quotes, Mean Quotes, Envy Quotes

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

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Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

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We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

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That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

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Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

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Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

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The bowl dispels corroding cares.

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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

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The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

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Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

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Anger is a momentary madness.

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While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

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Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

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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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For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

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I am doubting what to do.

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It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

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Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

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