March - Horace Quotes
"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; thos who have, fear it."
"The power of darin anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."
"A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably."
"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."
"Every old poem is sacred."
"A good and faithful jusge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient."
"I teach that all men are mad."
"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."
"Poets wish to profit or to please."
"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest."
"We are free to yield to truth."
"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
"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."
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
"I strive to be brief but I become obscure."
"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while."
"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 while book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement."
"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire."
"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."
"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well."
"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world."
"He has the deed half done who has made a beginning."
"Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gosspis, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them."
"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions."
"Make a good use of the present."
"He who would befun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."
"Anger is a short madness."
"We are just statistics, born to consume resources."
"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
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