Horace Quotes - Page 36

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• Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

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  Anxiety, Hopes And Fears

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• Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

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  Rome, Noise, Wealth

  "Carmina", III. 29. 11, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 677, 1922.

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• The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

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  Horse, Teaching, Necks

  "Epistles", Book I. 2. 64, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 779-80, 1922.

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• This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

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  Wisdom, Prayer, Spring

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• Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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  Retirement, Horse, Laughing

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• The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

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  Hope, Reaching

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• Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

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  Grieving, Doors, Cottages

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• He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

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  Succeed, Sat, Stills

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle xvii, line 37, c. 20 BC, 14 BC.

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

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  Movie, Wise, Latin

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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• And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

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  Grove

  Epistles bk. 2, no. 2, l. 45

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• While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

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  Latin, Joy, Compare

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• The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

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  Fire, Hazards, Ashes

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• People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

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  Latin, People, House

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• There is measure in all things.

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  All Things

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• By wine eating cares are put to flight.
  [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

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  Wine, Care, Flight

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• The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.

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  Kings, Children, Earth

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• The good hate sin because they love virtue.
  [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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  Hate, Sin, Virtue

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• What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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  Art, Secret, Mind

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• Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

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  Drinking, Feet, Earth

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