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Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once


Horace Smith

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HORACE He who is greedy is always in want.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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HORACE Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
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HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
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HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
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HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
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HORACE It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
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HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
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HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
HORACE I will not add another word.
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HORACE Faults are soon copied.
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HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
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