Horace - Life Quotes

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Life's brief span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.

Horace

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

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Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may; With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.

Horace

O Fortune, cruelest of heavenly powers, Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

Horace

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.

Horace

Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.

Horace

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

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Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

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Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

Horace