Horace
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Horace
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Complaints and Complaining
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
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Emotions
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
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Character
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
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Consistency
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
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Deception
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Brevity
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
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Death and Dying
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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Happiness
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
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Death and Dying
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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Fate
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold
We are free to yield to truth.
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Freedom
What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
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Escapism
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eyes
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one s country.
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Patriotism
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
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Freedom
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
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Freedom
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
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Envy
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
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Fools and Foolishness
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Health
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
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Greed
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
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Fortune
If a man s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
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Fortune
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Goals
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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Greatness
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
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Travel and Tourism
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
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Injustice
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
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Praise
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
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Life and Living
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Labor
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
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Knowledge
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
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Innocence
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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Life and Living
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
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Laziness
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Justice
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
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Love
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she ll be constantly running back.
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Nature
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
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Independence
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
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Modesty
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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Humor
I teach that all men are mad.
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Insanity
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
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Integrity
Tear thyself from delay.
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Procrastination
Clogged with yesterday s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
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Past
If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
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Systems
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
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Present
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.
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Opportunity
Seize the day.
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Present
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
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Poetry and Poets
Remember, when life s path is steep, to keep your mind even.
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Mind
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
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Persuasion
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
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Poetry and Poets
Every old poem is sacred.
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Poetry and Poets
Poets wish to profit or to please.
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Poetry and Poets
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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Moderation
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
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Tomorrow
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
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Politicians and Politics
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
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Money
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor s house is in flames.
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Neighbors
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
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Neighbors
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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People
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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Poetry and Poets
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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People
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
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Punishment
Make a good use of the present.
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Time and Time Management
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
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Song and Singing
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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Risk
There is nothing assured to mortals.
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Security
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
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Teachers and Teaching
Those that are little, little things suit.
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Things and Little Things
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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Speakers and Speaking
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
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Tears
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
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Action
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
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Courage
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 them.
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Gossip
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning
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Action
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
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Discipline
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
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Adversity
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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Ambition
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
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Adversity
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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Adversity
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
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Anger
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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Adversity
A picture is a poem without words.
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Arts and Artists
Nothing s beautiful from every point of view.
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Beauty
Anger is a brief lunacy.
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Anger
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Anger
Anger is short madness
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Anger
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
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Anger
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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Ambition
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
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Crime and Criminals
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
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Adversity
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
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Faults
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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Aid and Assistance
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
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Economy and Economics
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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Expectation
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
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Biography
He gains everyone s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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Function
Whatever advice you give, be short.
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Advice
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
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Courage
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
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Writers and Writing
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
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Youth
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
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Words
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
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Writers and Writing
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
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Writers and Writing
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
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Writers and Writing
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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Wisdom
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
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Writers and Writing
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
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Work
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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Virtue
Labor diligently to increase your property.
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Work
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
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Words
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
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Vice
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
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Vice
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
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Writers and Writing