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Horace
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Quotes:The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
There is measure in all things.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
The covetous man is ever in want.
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I will not add another word.
Faults are soon copied.
The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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