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• Limbs of a dismembered poet.

  Horace

  Latin, Poet, Limbs

  Satires bk. 1, no. 4, l. 62

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• I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

  Horace

  Years, Wind, Pyramids

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 388-90, Carmina, III. 30. 1, 1922.

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• Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

  Horace

  Character, Lasts, Consistent

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• Luck cannot change birth.

  Horace

  Luck, Birth

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• Busy idleness urges us on.
  [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

  Horace

  Busy, Inertia, Urges

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• Death is the last limit of all things.

  Horace

  Death, Lasts, Limits

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• One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.
  [Lat., Omnes una manet nox,
  Et calcanda semel via leti.]

  Horace

  Death, Night, Way

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• Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
  [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est;
  Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

  Horace

  Heaven, Strive, Difficult

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• Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

  Horace

  Sports, War, Wrath

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• It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

  Horace

  Country, Sweet, Patriotic

  Horace (1908). “Horace: Quintus Horatius Flaccus ... the Roman Poet Presented to Modern Readers”

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• A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
  [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

  Horace

  Wise, Future, Darkness

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• Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

  Horace

  Gossip, Ears, Inquisitive

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• Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods.
  [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]

  Horace

  Knows

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• That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

  Horace

  World, Corners, Corners Of The World

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• A man perfect to the finger tips.

  Horace

  Men, Perfect, Fingers

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• You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

  Horace

  Playing Games, Drunk, Enough

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• Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

  Horace

  Sometimes, Caught

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• Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

  Horace

  Play, Fierce, Strife

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• It is grievous to be caught.

  Horace

  Prison, Caught

  "Satires". Book I. 2. 134,

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• The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
  [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
  A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
  Nudus castra peto.]

  Horace

  Men, Heaven, Naked

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• He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

  Horace

  Dolphins, Woods, Painting

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 576-77, Ars Poetica, XXX, 1922.

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• If a better system's thine,
  Impart it frankly, or make use of mine.

  Horace

  Use, Mines, Impart

  "The works of Horace".

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• Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

  Horace

  Wine, Wrath, Secret

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• Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

  Horace

  Wall, Guilt, Pale

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• It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

  Horace

  Hero, Differences, Oratory

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, CXIV,

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