Horace Quotes - Page 3

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• Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

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  Inspirational, Trust, Opportunity

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• Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.

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  Confidence, Self Confidence, Self

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• Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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  Life, Expectations, Inspire

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• He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

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  Motivational, Positive, Wise

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, lines 40 - 41, c. 20 BC-14 BC.

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• Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

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  Teaching, Training, Braces

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• With equal pace, impartial Fate
  Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

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  Fate, Cottages, Pace

  Horace, Philip Francis (1779). “A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators”, p.11

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• I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

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  Arabia, Ease, Riches

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• They change their skies,
  but not their souls
  who run across the sea.

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  Running, Travel, Sea

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• He who is greedy is always in want.

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  Money, Greed, Investing

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• Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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  Life, Work, Hardship

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire ix, line 59, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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• He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

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  Love, Envy, Envied

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• Never despair.
  [Nil desperandum.]

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  Despair

  Horace (1983). “The Complete Works of Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)”, Frederick Ungar

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• Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

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  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Being Thankful

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• In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

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  Courage, Stress, Adversity

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• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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  Anger, Passion, Madness

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62, c. 20 BC.

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• Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

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  Thinking, Looks, Lasts

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle iv, line 13 - 14, c. 20 BC, 14 BC.

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• Whatever advice you give, be short.

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  Funny, Giving, Advice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Ars Poetica, CCCXXXV, 1922.

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• One cannot know everything.

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  Knowledge, Knows

  "Carmina", IV. 4 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.

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• Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

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  Mistress, Use, Literature

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• Better to accept whatever happens.

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  Accepting, Whatever Happens, Happens

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• Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

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  Procrastination, Eye, Mind

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• When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

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  Gold, Desire, Cups

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• It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

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  Inspirational, Teenager, Men

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• Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

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  Retirement, Struggle, Limits

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, Satire I, transl. by N. Rudd, v. 92-94, 2005.

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• When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

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  Life, Evil, Serenity

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