Horace Quotes, Men Quotes, Shoes Quotes

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

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The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

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Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

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Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

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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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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

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Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

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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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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

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Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

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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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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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Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

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Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

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Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

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Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

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