Horace

Horace

"Faults are soon copied."
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"Faults are soon copied."
Horace
"So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits,On waking, you'll be tortured by envy or lust. Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, when If it's your mind, you put off the cure till next year?Who's started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!"
Horace
"Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start"
Horace
"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."
Horace
"Anger is a brief madness."
Horace
"Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror"
Horace
"There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed."
Horace
"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
Horace
"Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."
Horace
"In love there are two evils: war and peace."
Horace
"Rule your mind or it will rule you."
Horace
"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."
Horace
"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."
Horace
"he who is greedy is always in want"
Horace
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."
Horace
"Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith"
Horace
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