Horace Quotes, Self Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

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Better to accept whatever happens.

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Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

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If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

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Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

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Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

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I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

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Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

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Brighter than Parian marble.

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If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

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Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

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Limbs of a dismembered poet.

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I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

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