Quotes by Horace
To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
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Whatever your advice, make it brief.
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Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
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In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars.
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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
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Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
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It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
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An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of its owner.
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A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
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Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
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Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Anger is short-lived madness.
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Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
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Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.
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Get money; by just means, if you can; if not, still get money.
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In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
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