Horace - Mind Quotes

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It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

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Grant me, sound of body and of mind, to pass an old age lacking neither honor nor the lyre.

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They change their clime, not their frame of mind, who rush across the sea. We strain at achieving nothing: we seek happiness in boats and carriage rides.

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How light, how small is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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The mind enamored with deceptive things, declines things better.

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For why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if anything gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year?

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It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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