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• He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

  Horace

  Men, Speak, Failing

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• Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Faith, Humor

  'Odes' bk. 1, no. 9, l. 13

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• Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

  Horace

  Thinking, Looks, Lasts

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle iv, line 13 - 14, c. 20 BC, 14 BC.

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• Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

  Horace

  Confidence, Self Confidence, Self

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• Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Trust, Opportunity

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• To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

  Horace

  Men, Degrees, Lasts

  "Epistles". I. 17. 35,

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• A good scare is worth more than good advice.

  Horace

  Funny, Advice, Simple Life

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• Life is largely a matter of expectation.

  Horace

  Life, Expectations, Inspire

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• Whatever advice you give, be short.

  Horace

  Funny, Giving, Advice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Ars Poetica, CCCXXXV, 1922.

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• Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

  Horace

  Wise, Character, Passion

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• Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

  Horace

  Wine, Worry, Smooth

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• Never despair.
  [Nil desperandum.]

  Horace

  Despair

  Horace (1983). “The Complete Works of Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)”, Frederick Ungar

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• They change their skies,
  but not their souls
  who run across the sea.

  Horace

  Running, Travel, Sea

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• When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

  Horace

  Gold, Desire, Cups

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• When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Discipline, Levels

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• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  Horace

  Anger, Passion, Madness

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62, c. 20 BC.

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• He who is greedy is always in want.

  Horace

  Money, Greed, Investing

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• We are free to yield to truth.

  Horace

  Freedom, Yield

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• Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

  Horace

  Names, Stories, Subjects

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• Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

  Horace

  Retirement, Struggle, Limits

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, Satire I, transl. by N. Rudd, v. 92-94, 2005.

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• No master can make me swear blind obedience.

  Horace

  Latin, Blind, Obedience

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• Better to accept whatever happens.

  Horace

  Accepting, Whatever Happens, Happens

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• Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

  Horace

  Wall, Faults, Sides

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• Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

  Horace

  Courage, Ambition, Loss

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

  Horace

  Winning, Hands, Pleasure

  "The Art of Poetry". Poem by Horace, Line 343, c. 18 BC.

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