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.
Horace Quotes
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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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.
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Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
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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.
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We are free to yield to truth.
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.