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• The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

  Horace

  Mind, Excess, Body

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• Take heed lest you stumble.

  Horace

  Heed

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• Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent?
  [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

  Horace

  Made, Eloquent, Bowls

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• Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

  Horace

  Men, Mediocrity, Poet

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• What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

  Horace

  Justice, Modesty, Found

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 520-21, Carmina, I. 24. 6, 1922.

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• Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

  Horace

  Cutting, Men, Hands

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• What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.

  Horace

  Heirs, Share, Rescue

  Horace (1835). “Horace: The Epistles, book I-II. The Art of poetry. Appendix, containing translations of various odes, &c”, p.185

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• Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

  Horace

  Men, Poetry, Rate

  'Ars Poetica' l. 372

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• That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

  Horace

  Giving, Poetry, Pleasure

  'Odes' bk. 4, no. 3, l. 24

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• Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

  Horace

  Mind, Spills, Superfluous

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• The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

  Horace

  Men, Thinking, He Man

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.380, Delphi Classics

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• What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

  Horace

  Men, Odds, Doe

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire i, line 48, c. 35 BC.

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• It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

  Horace

  Sweet, Drink, Homeland

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• To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
  [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]

  Horace

  Olympus

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• Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
  [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
  Fortuna non mutat genus.]

  Horace

  Money, Proud, Birth

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• All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
  [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

  Horace

  Money, Powerful, Giving

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• Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

  Horace

  Decision, Speech, Favour

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• Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

  Horace

  Mad, Insanity, Spares

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• Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

  Horace

  Trust, Carpe Diem, Seize The Day

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• You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

  Horace

  Art, Reading, Mean

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• I am doubting what to do.

  Horace

  Latin, Doubt

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• Whatever your advice, make it brief.

  Horace

  Advice

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• Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
  [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

  Horace

  Money, Firsts, Wealth

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• We are all gathered to the same fold.

  Horace

  Brotherhood, Folds

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• It is not permitted that we should know everything.

  Horace

  Should, Knows

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