Horace Quotes, Heart Quotes, Humanity Quotes

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

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Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

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When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

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Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

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Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]

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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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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

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To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

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The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

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The grammarians are arguing.

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

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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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Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

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When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

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