Horace Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Wine Quotes

Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

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To grow a philosopher's beard.

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Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

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Death is the last limit of all things.

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Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

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Force without reason falls of its own weight.

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Limbs of a dismembered poet.

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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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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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Never without a shilling in my purse.

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It is grievous to be caught.

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Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

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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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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

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Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

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It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

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The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

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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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Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

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