Horace Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Yesterday Quotes

The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat., Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

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It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

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No man is born without faults.

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If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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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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Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

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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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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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Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

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