Horace Quotes

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

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A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

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There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

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The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

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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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Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

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Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

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Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

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With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

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

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Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

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There are faults we would fain pardon.

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Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

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

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Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.

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Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

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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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