Horace Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Prayer Quotes

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

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We get blows and return them.

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He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitt'ring all his state.

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

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Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

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The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

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When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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What's well begun is half done.

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Amiability shines by its own light.

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Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

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The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

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It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

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No master can make me swear blind obedience.

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All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

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Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

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The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

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