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• Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

  Horace

  Son, Giving, Age

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

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• Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
  (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

  Horace

  Sea, Sky, Soul

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• Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

  Horace

  Happy, Enjoy, Present Day

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• Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

  Horace

  Latin, Savages, Conqueror

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• I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

  Horace

  Appreciation, Latin, Bronze

  Odes bk. 3, no. 30, l. 1

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• Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
  [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus
  Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

  Horace

  Wings, Peaceful, Black

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• We get blows and return them.

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  Blow, Return

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• Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

  Horace

  Sleep, Wine, Leisure

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• Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
  Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

  Horace

  Boys, Men, Anxiety

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Anger is a short madness.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Anger, Madness

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 62

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• Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

  Horace

  Essence, Yesterday, Soul

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• Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities.
  [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

  Horace

  Writing, Authorship, Ability

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• Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year.
  [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

  Horace

  Years, Authorship, Written

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• There are faults we would fain pardon.

  Horace

  Faults, Pardon

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• The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

  Horace

  Country, Race, Towns

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• Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
  [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

  Horace

  Writing, Care, Authorship

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• Believe it, future generations.

  Horace

  Believe, Generations, Future Generation

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• The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

  Horace

  Stupid, Water, Literature

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• One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

  Horace

  Latin, Wicked, Laziness

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• The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

  Horace

  Horse, Eagles, Brave

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• Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

  Horace

  Hero, Night, Agamemnon

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• The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

  Horace

  Latin, Mad, Insane

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• Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

  Horace

  Art, Poet, Equal

  "Ars Poetica" (18 BC), 9, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 43-45, 1922.

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• The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

  Horace

  Latin, Yoke, Tribes

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• The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

  Horace

  Caring, Toil, Fowl

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