Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
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Horace
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About Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by HoraceA heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
We are free to yield to truth.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that…
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissanc…
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that…
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.