Horace Quotes, Failure Quotes, Adversity Quotes

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

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Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

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As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

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I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

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When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

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In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

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The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

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Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

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Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

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The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

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Don't just put it off and think about it!

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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

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He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

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Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

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The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

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