Tag: Horace
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace
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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
Horace
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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace
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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Horace
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Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Horace
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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?
Horace
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
Horace
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
Horace