Horace Quotes, Mean Quotes, Envy Quotes

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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

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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

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It is not permitted that we should know everything.

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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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Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

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On day is pressed on by another.

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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

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Never without a shilling in my purse.

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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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Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

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For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

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

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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

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Take heed lest you stumble.

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Luck cannot change birth.

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As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

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Remember to be calm in adversity.

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We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]

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