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Wisdom
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Quotes by Horace
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
Life
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Wisdom
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Education
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Courage
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Wisdom
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Life
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Life
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Wisdom
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Life
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
Wisdom
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Wisdom
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Wisdom
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Life
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Wisdom
Anger is a short madness.
Wisdom
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
Wisdom
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
Wisdom
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Love
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Happiness
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Success
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Wisdom
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Success
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.
Happiness
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