Horace Quotes, Motivation Quotes, Rain Quotes

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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Wine unlocks the breast.

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Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

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Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

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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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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

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Punishment follows close on crime.

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This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

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Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

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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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Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

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My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

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

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One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti.]

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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

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