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• It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

  Horace

  Sweet, Mind, Occasions

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• A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

  Horace

  Literature

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.269

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

  Horace

  Genius, Host, Calamity

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book II, satire viii, lines 73 - 74, c. 35 BC, 30 BC.

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• Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
  The false refinements that would keep her out.

  Horace

  Environment, Force, Refinement

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

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• Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?
  [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

  Horace

  Money, Use, Fortune

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• I am not what I once was.
  [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

  Horace

  Change

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• By the favour of the heavens

  Horace

  Religious, Heaven, Favour

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• My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

  Horace

  Truth, Inquiry, Care

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• Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality?
  [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus
  Vanae proficiunt?]

  Horace

  Law, Use, Immortality

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• Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

  Horace

  Reading, Writing, Editing

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• The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

  Horace

  Home, Thinking, May

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• Every old poem is sacred.

  Horace

  Art, Poetry, Sacred

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• In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
  [Lat., Horae
  Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

  Horace

  Victory, Moments, Joyful

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• I shall not altogether die.

  Horace

  Death, Dies

  Odes bk. 3, no. 30, l. 6

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• Anger is short-lived madness.

  Horace

  Wise, Anger, Emotion

  Epistles I.II.62

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• The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

  Horace

  Latin, Men, Forget

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• As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

  Horace

  Moon, Fire, Shining

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• O sweet solace of labors.
  [Lat., O laborum
  Dulce lenimen.]

  Horace

  Sweet, Solace, Labor

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• Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
  [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
  Regumque turres.]

  Horace

  Death, Kings, Towers

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• Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
  Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

  Horace

  Safety, May, Moments

  Horace (1872). “The Odes and Epodes of Horace”, p.170

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• The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

  Horace

  Horse, Ears, Mouths

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• Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

  Horace

  Wealth, Fortune, Nameless

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• Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

  Horace

  Time, Men, Years

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• What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

  Horace

  Country, Country Love, Able

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 141-42, Carmina II. 16. 19, 1922.

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• Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

  Horace

  Destiny, Trying, Ends

  'Odes' bk. 1, no. 11, l. 1

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