Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Subject:
Wisdom
Wealth
Poverty
Work: Odes
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
Subject:
Wisdom
Future
Work: Odes
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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.
Subject:
Happiness
Life
Death
Work: Satires
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The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes
Wisdom
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Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Subject:
Wisdom
Death
Work: Epistles
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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Subject:
Wisdom
Vices
Work: Epistles
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
Subject:
Love & Romance
Work: Odes
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Subject:
Wisdom
Conversation
Work: Epistles
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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Subject:
Adversity
Work: Odes
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With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
Subject:
Silence
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Subject:
Adversity
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Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
Subject:
Wisdom
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The covetous man is ever in want.
Subject:
Greed
Work: Epistles
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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Subject:
Poetry
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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
Subject:
Money
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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Subject:
Wisdom
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There is measure in all things.
Subject:
Wisdom
Work: Satires
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He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Subject:
Stupidity
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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Subject:
Work
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Subject:
Wealth
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