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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
Horace
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
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 renaissance.
Horace
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Horace
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Horace
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
Horace
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
Whatever advice you give, be short.
Horace
Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.
Horace
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Horace
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Horace
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Horace
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Horace
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Horace
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 I call an achievement.
Horace
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace
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