Horace Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

  Horace

  Death, Time, Memories

  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

• Words challenge eternity.

  Horace

  Challenges, Eternity

  Horace (1733). “Q. Horatii Flacci de Arte Poetica liber ... Horace's treatise concerning the Art of Poetry; together with notes critical, historical, and poetical, by the Earl of Roscommon”, p.29

• Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

  Horace

  Men, Law, Judging

  Horace (1717). “The Odes & Satyrs of Horace, that Have Been Done Into English by the Most Eminent Hands...: With His Art of Poetry...To this Ed. is Added Several Odes Never Before Published”, p.189

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