Horace Quotes

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• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
• Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is…
• Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to…
• A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
• The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches…
• It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
• Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
• Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
• I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
• Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
• Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
• One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.
• Limbs of a dismembered poet.
• The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.
• One Sallow does not make Summer.
• From the egg to the apple.
• The dispute is still before the judge.
• Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
• Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

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