"I strive to be brief, and I become obscure."

Horace on brevity   

"Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him."

Horace on aid and assistance
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"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years."

Horace on writers and writing
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"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."

Horace on words   

"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."

Horace on love
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"Anger is short madness"

Horace on anger
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"Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them."

Horace on gossip
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"In the word of no master am I bound to believe."

Horace on independence
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"Life is largely a matter of expectation."

Horace on expectation
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"Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day."

Horace on opportunity   

"Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king."

Horace on death   

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

Horace on health   

"The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime."

Horace on courage   

"Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even."

Horace on mind
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"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames."

Horace on neighbors   

"Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom."

Horace on speakers and speaking
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"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."

Horace on people   

"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them."

Horace on work   

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."

Horace on justice
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"A picture is a poem without words."

Horace on art   

"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

Horace on people
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"Tear thyself from delay."

Horace on procrastination
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"Nothing's beautiful from every point of view."

Horace on beauty
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"While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one."

Horace on faults   

"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."

Horace on nature   

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

Horace on adversity
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"Believe that each day that shines on you is your last."

Horace on present
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"Begin, be bold and venture to be wise."

Horace on goals
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"A word once uttered can never be recalled."

Horace on words
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"Whatever advice you give, be short."

Horace on advice
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"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on work   

"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on parents and parenting
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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."

Ballou, Hosea on nature
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"Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on nature   

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Gibran, Kahlil on nature
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"When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on truth   

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"

Cocteau, Jean on luck
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"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."

Sher, Barbara on luck   

"Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them."

Unknown, Source on luck   

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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