Horace Quotes

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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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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  Speech, Action, Modest

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• 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.

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  Art, Men, Psychology

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

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  Running, Courage, Procrastination

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• I teach that all men are mad.

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  Men, Mad, Insanity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, Satires, II. 3. 81, 1922.

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• Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

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  Thankful, Future

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

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• What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

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  Patience, May, Made

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

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

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  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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

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  Labor

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• Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

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  Latin, Mind, Calm

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• One cannot know everything.

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  Knowledge, Knows

  "Carmina", IV. 4 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.

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• In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

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  Wise, War, Men

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• Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

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  Wine, Worry, Smooth

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

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  Life, Doe, Littles

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, 20 BC.

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

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  Wise, Wisdom, Cages

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

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• As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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  Failure, Adversity, Genius

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• Better to accept whatever happens.

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  Accepting, Whatever Happens, Happens

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

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  Education, Wisdom, Book

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• 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.

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  Running, Teaching, Mind

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• 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.

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  Wise, Character, Passion

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• A word once uttered can never be recalled.

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  Literature

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• 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.

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  Eye, Men, People

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• Mistakes are their own instructors

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  Mistake, Instructors

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