Horace

Horace

"We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest."
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"We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest."
Horace
"Let your poem be kept nine years."
Horace
"The man is either mad or he is making verses."
Horace
"Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings."
Horace
"In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town."
Horace
"No one is content with his own lot."
Horace
"Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour."
Horace
"He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place."
Horace
"Live mindful of how brief your life is."
Horace
"When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake."
Horace
"The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at."
Horace
"One cannot know everything."
Horace
"Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge."
Horace
"I teach that all men are mad."
Horace
"Never despair."
Horace
"And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!"
Horace
"You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot."
Horace
"He who is greedy is always in want."
Horace
"Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things."
Horace
"Let him who has enough wish for nothing more."
Horace
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