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May Quotes by Horace
- Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
- He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world…
- You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
- I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
- The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In…
- Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
- Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
- The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would…
- Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
- He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
- Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
- Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")
More May Quotes
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- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare