And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. Horace More Quotes by Horace More Quotes From Horace Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. Horace authorshipcarewriting Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow. Horace present-dayenjoyhappy Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. Horace rewardseffortmen Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow. Horace seize-the-daymorrowcarpe-diem Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence. Horace essencesoulyesterday Amiability shines by its own light. Horace shininglight It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. Horace agegonelaughing I am not what I once was. Horace change This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden Horace gardenlandprayer Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. Horace purplegivingtwo A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. Horace futuredarknesswise Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Horace venturegamblingsoul We get blows and return them. Horace returnblow Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. Horace strivedifficultheaven Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. Horace oppositestwolying Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger. Horace hopes-and-fearsanxiety Busy idleness urges us on. Horace inertiaurgesbusy Luck cannot change birth. Horace birthluck To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it. Horace favourcourtmen Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. Horace agegivingson
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