Horace Quotes, Years Quotes, Wind Quotes

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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Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

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Anger is a momentary madness.

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A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

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Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

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The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

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Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

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Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

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We are free to yield to truth.

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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

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Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

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No master can make me swear blind obedience.

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That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

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What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

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Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

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