Horace Quotes - Page 29

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• While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

  Horace

  Running, Opposites, Faults

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• My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

  Horace

  Anger, Feelings, Difficult

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

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• The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

  Horace

  Adversity, Too Much, Delight

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• There is no retracing our steps.

  Horace

  Steps

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• Now drown care in wine.
  [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

  Horace

  Wine, Care, Vino

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• Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

  Horace

  Fall, Weight, Judgment

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• It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
  [Lat., Delere licebit
  Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

  Horace

  Spoken Word, Written Word, Recalls

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• The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

  Horace

  Difficulty, Explanation

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• Anger is brief madness

  Horace

  Madness

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• Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

  Horace

  Two, Purple, Giving

  "Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)". Poem by Horace (line 14), circa 18 BC.

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• In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
  [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

  Horace

  Speech, Obscure, Concise

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• The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
  [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

  Horace

  Sports, Broken, Shame

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• Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

  Horace

  Death, Art, Kings

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• Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.

  Horace

  Rain, Fall, Sea

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• Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

  Horace

  Gold, Silver, Virtue

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• Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

  Horace

  Men, Tales, Inquisitive

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• The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

  Horace

  Wine, Praise, Drunkards

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• The covetous are always in want.

  Horace

  Want

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• The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

  Horace

  Treasure, May, Contemplating

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• Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

  Horace

  Use

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• The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

  Horace

  Hook, Pits, Hawks

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• Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

  Horace

  Morrow

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• The question is yet before the court.

  Horace

  Court

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• Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried.
  [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori
  Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

  Horace

  Heaven, Path, Virtue

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• The bowl dispels corroding cares.

  Horace

  Care, Bowls

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