Horace Quotes - Page 33

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• A man polished to the nail.
  [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

  Horace

  Home, Men, Nails

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• He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .

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  Sweet, Latin

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• I shall not completely die.

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  Latin, Dies

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• I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

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  Father, Sunshine, Clouds

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book III, ode xxix, line 41, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

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• No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

  Horace

  Latin

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• Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

  Horace

  Vain, Cradle, Graves

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• Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

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  Latin, Welcome, Hours

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• Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

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  Latin, Example, Doe

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• While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

  Horace

  Talking, No Trust, Fleeing

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• Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

  Horace

  Life, Success, Money

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• Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
  The surest guard is innocence:
  None knew, till guilt created fear,
  What darts or poisoned arrows were

  Horace

  Arrows, Guilt, Needs

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• Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

  Horace

  Memories, Men, Recollection

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• There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

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  Running, Needs, May

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• Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
  The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

  Horace

  Men, Effort, Rewards

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• A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

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  Gains, Approval, Pleasant

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• Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

  Horace

  Hours, Accepting, Gladness

  "Horace, the Odes and Epodes: With an English Translation".

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• The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

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  Writing, Secret, Sound

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

  Horace

  Country, Rome, Sky

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• I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

  Horace

  Death, Dying, Graves

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• When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

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  Becoming, Wealth, Caution

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• "Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

  Horace

  Giving, Liberty, Poet

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• When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars,
  And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

  Horace

  Fear, War, Atheism

  "The Works of Horace".

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• Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Golden

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode x, line 5, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

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• Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

  Horace

  Obscure, Strive, Miscellaneous

  'Ars Poetica' l. 25

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