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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Horace
Inspirational, Life, Positive

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Horace
Speech, Action, Modest

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Horace
Art, Men, Psychology

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace
Running, Courage, Procrastination

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Horace
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

Horace
Patience, May, Made
Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Horace
Inspirational, Positive, Success

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

Horace
Wise, War, Men

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Horace
Love, Inspirational, Happiness

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

Horace
Labor

Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

Horace
Latin, Mind, Calm

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace
Life, Doe, Littles
"Epistles". Book by Horace, 20 BC.

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Horace
Thankful, Future
"Carmina". Book by Horace, I. 9. 13, 13 BC.

Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

Horace
Wine, Worry, Smooth

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

Horace
Wise, Character, Passion

What's well begun is half done.

Horace
Done, Half, Wells
"Epistles", I. 2. 40, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 65-66, 1922.

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

Horace
Wise, Wisdom, Cages
Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

Mistakes are their own instructors

Horace
Mistake, Instructors

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace
Education, Wisdom, Book

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

Horace
Running, Teaching, Mind

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

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Men, Charity, Helping

The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

Horace
Eye, Men, People

That best of blessings, a contented mind.

Horace
Blessing, Mind
Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.393, Delphi Classics

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

Horace
Sour, Turns, Vessel

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

Horace
Stupid, Men, Lessons To Be Learned

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