Horace

Quotes by Horace

• He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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• Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

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• Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

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• In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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• Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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• 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.

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• Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

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• he who is greedy is always in want

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• Pactum serva - Keep the faith

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• he who is greedy is always in want

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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• In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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• Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

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• Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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• Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

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• Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

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• Pactum serva - Keep the faith

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• He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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• 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.

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