Horace Quotes - Page 20

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• Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
  So shalt thou live beyond the reach
  Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
  Not always tempt the distant deep,
  Nor always timorously creep
  Along the treach'rous shore.

  Horace

  Truth, Moderation, Fortune

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

  Horace

  War, Wine, Hardship

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• Let Apella the Jew believe it.

  Horace

  Believe, Jew

  'Satires' bk. 1, no. 5, l. 100

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• Nothing is achieved without toil.

  Horace

  Toil

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• And yet more bright
  Shines out the Julian star,
  As moon outglows each lesser light.
  [Lat., Micat inter omnes
  Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes
  Luna minores.]

  Horace

  Stars, Moon, Light

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• The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
  [Lat., Quin corpus onustum
  Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
  Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

  Horace

  Depressing, Yesterday, Mind

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• Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

  Horace

  Anniversary, Wedding, Unbroken

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• Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

  Horace

  Life, Privacy

  "Epistles", I. 17. 10 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

  Horace

  Desire, Naked, Camps

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• Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

  Horace

  Nature, Science, Foolish

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• The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

  Horace

  Depressing, Mind, Body

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• Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist.
  [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis
  Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

  Horace

  Men, Ordinary, Poet

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• The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

  Horace

  Mountain, Littles, Birth

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• If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
  [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
  Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

  Horace

  Eye, Years, Mind

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• Now, that's enough.
  [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]

  Horace

  Jam, Satisfaction, Enough

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• Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

  Horace

  Sports, Fortune, Human Life

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

  Horace

  Grief, Grieving, Wish

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, v. 102, c. 19 BC.

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• I wrap myself up in virtue.
  [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

  Horace

  Virtue, Wraps

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• Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

  Horace

  Riches, Firsts, Wealth

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• The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

  Horace

  Punishment, Tyrants, Envy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Epistles, I. 2. 57, 1922.

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• Cease to ask what the morrow
  will bring forth,
  and set down as gain
  each day that fortune grants.

  Horace

  Happiness, Each Day, Gains

  Horace (1927). “The Odes and Epodes”

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• Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

  Horace

  Fall, Grief, Passion

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

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• In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

  Horace

  Hard Times, Prosperity, Equanimity

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• Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

  Horace

  Mind, Bats, Care

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• Don't carry logs into the forest.

  Horace

  Latin, Forests

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