Horace - Satires

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This used to be among my prayers — a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden, and near the house a spring of ever-flowing water, and beyond these a bit of wood.

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As they put it in Greek, we simply don't COUNT. We consume.

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You may turn nature out of doors with violence, but she will still return.

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One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.]

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This to the right, that to the left hand strays, And all are wrong, but wrong in different ways.

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The case will be dismissed with a laugh. You will get off scot-free.

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This was among my prayers: a piece of land not so very large, where a garden should be and a spring of ever-flowing water near the house, and a bit of woodland as well as these.

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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.

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A host is like a general: misfortunes often reveal his genius.

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The mind enamored with deceptive things, declines things better.

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In Rome you long for the country; in the country— oh inconstant! —you praise the distant city to the stars.

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How is it, Maecenas, that no one lives contented with his lot, whether he has planned it for himself or fate has flung him into it, but yet he praises those who follow different paths?

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

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In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

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

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Why should truth not be impress'd
Beneath the cover of a jest.

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What is to prevent one from telling truth as he laughs, even as teachers sometimes give cookies to children to coax them into learning their A B C?

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Those whose creed is that all sins are much on a par are at a loss when they come to face facts. Feelings and customs rebel, and expediency itself is the mother of justice and equity.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

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How comes it, Maecenas, that no man living is content with the lot that either his choice has given him, or chance has thrown in his way, but each has praise for those who follow other paths?

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What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

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Humour very often cuts the knot of serious questions more trenchantly and successfully than severity.

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