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• A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

  Horace

  Change, Heart, Adversity

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• The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

  Horace

  Wall, Greed, Want

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• He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

  Horace

  Lying, Father, Deceiving Others

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• A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

  Horace

  Blood, Skins, Leeches

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• Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

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  Death, Kings, Men

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• We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

  Horace

  Literature, Crime, Disgrace

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• In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode iii, line 1, c. 23 BC and 13 BC).

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• While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

  Horace

  Running, Attitude, Talking

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• Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity.
  [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem;
  Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

  Horace

  Mean, Writing, Bears

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• Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

  Horace

  Mean, Admiration, Lost

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• When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
  The citizens burning to approve a wrong
  Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
  Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
  Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
  Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
  Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
  As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

  Horace

  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

  Horace

  Acceptance, Forbidden, Lighters

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• He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

  Horace

  Men, Shoes, Choices

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.370, Delphi Classics

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• Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
  [Lat., Vir bonus est quis?
  Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

  Horace

  Father, Men, Law

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• That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

  Horace

  Greatness, Men, Brightness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, Epistles, II. 1. 13, 1922.

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• He's arm'd without that's innocent within;
  Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

  Horace

  Wall, Literature, Innocence

  "Imitations of Horace: With An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and the Epilogue to the Satires".

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• Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

  Horace

  Acrimony, Settling, Ridicule

  "Satires", Book I. 10. 14, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

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• He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
  [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

  Horace

  Change, Despise

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• The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

  Horace

  Arrows, Mark

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• The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.
  [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

  Horace

  Illustration, Settling, Difficulty

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• Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

  Horace

  Storm, Guests, Willing

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345, Epistles, I. 1. 15, 1922.

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• Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue.
  [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

  Horace

  Gold, Silver, Virtue

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• Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

  Horace

  Change, Nice, Years

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• There is moderation in everything.

  Horace

  Philosophical, Moderation

  Satires bk. 1, no. 1, l. 106

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• Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

  Horace

  Time, Pampering, Youth

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