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• Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

  Horace

  Grief, Joy, Morrow

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
  [Lat., Et idem
  Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
  Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

  Horace

  Sleep, Long, Bonus

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• However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

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  Names, Desire, Imperfect

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• The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
  [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

  Horace

  Change, Horse, Lazy

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• Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

  Horace

  Obscure, Brevity

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• What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

  Horace

  Grief, Men, Limits

  "Carmina" by Horace, I. 24. 1,

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• A pauper in the midst of wealth.

  Horace

  Wealth, Midst

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

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• The grammarians are arguing.

  Horace

  Latin, Arguing

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• Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

  Horace

  Father, Parent, Caverns

  Horace (1901). “Q. Horatii Flacci Odæ, Epodæ, Carmen sæculare”

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• Busy idleness urges us on.

  Horace

  Busy, Urges, Idleness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 384-85, Epistles, Book I, XI. 28, 1922.

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• The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

  Horace

  Heaven, Doe, Praise

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• I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

  Horace

  Fear, Footprint, Dens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Epistles, I. 1. 74, 1922.

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• Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

  Horace

  Fate, Hands, Names

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• Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

  Horace

  Pleasure, Source

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Ars Poetica, 338, 1922.

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• A crafty knave needs no broker.

  Horace

  Needs, Knaves, Crime

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• Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

  Horace

  Despair, Guidance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 189-90, Carmina, I, 7, 27, 1922.

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• Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

  Horace

  Men, Car, Wheels

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 313-14, Satires, I. 6. 23, 1922.

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• The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

  Horace

  Sauce, Eating, Pleasure

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• Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
  [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

  Horace

  People, Royalty, Monarchs

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• He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

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  Men, Doe, Preserves

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• At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

  Horace

  Rome

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• Hatched in the same nest.

  Horace

  Nests

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• By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!

  Horace

  Heaven, My Friends, Destroyed

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• Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

  Horace

  Laughter, My Friends

  Horace (1938). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.

  Horace

  Lessons, Enjoy, Forefathers

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