Horace Quotes - Page 13

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• Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
  [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae
  Celata virtus.]

  Horace

  Character, Excellence, Littles

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• 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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• Poets, the first instructors of mankind,
  Brought all things to the proper native use.

  Horace

  Use, Firsts, Poet

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• Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

  Horace

  Add, Helping, Tomorrow

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• Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen.
  [Lat., Quod medicorum est
  Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

  Horace

  Business, Physicians, Tools

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• What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

  Horace

  Evil, Age, Wickedness

  "Carmina", I. 35. 34, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 239-41, 1922.

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• Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

  Horace

  Running, Nature, Danger

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• An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

  Horace

  Men, Envious, Fatness

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• He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

  Horace

  Time, May, Today

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• Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

  Horace

  Poverty, Turns, Beggar

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• What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

  Horace

  Mind, Force, Strikes

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• He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

  Horace

  Desire, Want, Enough

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• If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

  Horace

  Men, Shoes, Stories

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

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• Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

  Horace

  Evil, Grandparent, Bears

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• Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

  Horace

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

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• The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

  Horace

  Crazy, Writing, Men

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• Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

  Horace

  Names, Stories, Subjects

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• The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

  Horace

  Music, Play, Strings

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• I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

  Horace

  Spring, Garden, Land

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• There is nothing assured to mortals.

  Horace

  Assured, Mortals

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• Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

  Horace

  Too Much, Pleasure, Good Things

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

  Horace

  Wine, Men, Secret

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• As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

  Horace

  Sick, Funeral, Mind

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 242-43, Satires, I. 4. 126, 1922.

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• Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

  Horace

  Carpe Diem, Green Fields, Remember You

  Odes 11.3

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• Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

  Horace

  Guilt, Pale, Clear

  "Epistles", I. 1. 60, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 130-31, 1922.

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