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• Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

  Horace

  Carpe Diem, Seize The Day, Morrow

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• Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

  Horace

  Ciphers, Earth, Fruit

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• What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
  [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
  Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

  Horace

  Mountain, Ridiculous, Born

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• A noble pair of brothers.
  [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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  Brother, Noble, Pairs

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• To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

  Horace

  Jobs, Half, Sensible

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 40

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• He that cuts off twenty years of life
  Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

  Horace

  Death, Suicide, Cutting

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• Small things become small folks.

  Horace

  Folks, Small Things

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.368, Delphi Classics

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• How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

  Horace

  Mind, Praise, Greedy

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• We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth.
  [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium
  Versatur urna serius, ocius
  Sors exitura.]

  Horace

  Death, Sooner Or Later, Compelled

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• It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

  Horace

  Speak, Difficult, Universal

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Line 128, c. 18 BC.

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• Happy he who far from business persuits
  Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands
  With oxen of his own breeding
  Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

  Horace

  Oxen, Land, Yoke

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• Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
  [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

  Horace

  Fortune, Incomplete

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• I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

  Horace

  Wings, Lasts, Poverty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Carmina, III. 29, 1922.

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• He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

  Horace

  Life, Cheer, Father

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• If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.
  [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
  Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

  Horace

  Stars, Poet, Strikes

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• O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

  Horace

  Art, Stupid, Wine

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.362, Delphi Classics

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• If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

  Horace

  Nature, Way, Pitchforks

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

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• Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

  Horace

  Fate, Gains, Granted

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• A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

  Horace

  Money, Men, Wife

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.365, Delphi Classics

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• Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

  Horace

  Strength, Judgment, Policy

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• Drawing is the true test of art.

  Horace

  Art, Drawing, Tests

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• No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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  Long, Giving, Water

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 19, l. 1

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• I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
  [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
  Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

  Horace

  Cutting, Iron, Vices

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• If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

  Horace

  Secret, Virtue, Pleasure

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

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• He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

  Horace

  Integrity, Way, Sin

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