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• The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

  Horace

  Men, Tyrants, Citizens

  "Carmina (Odes)". Book by Jorace (Book III, Ode III, line 1), 23 BC.

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• The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.
  [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

  Horace

  Illustration, Settling, Difficulty

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• Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

  Horace

  Favors, Too Much, Fool

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• False praise can please, and calumny affright
  None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

  Horace

  Hypocrite, Praise, Vicious

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• Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

  Horace

  Thinking, Sorrow, Dawn

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  Horace

  Madness, Momentary

  "Epistularum liber primus (First Book of Letters)". Book by Horace (Epistle 2, line 62), 20 BC.

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• Splendidly mendacious.
  [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

  Horace

  Lying

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• Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
  [Lat., Vir bonus est quis?
  Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

  Horace

  Father, Men, Law

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• Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death.
  [Lat., Truditur dies die,
  Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

  Horace

  Moon, New Moon, Dies

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• Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

  Horace

  Advise

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• That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

  Horace

  Greatness, Men, Brightness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, Epistles, II. 1. 13, 1922.

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• Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

  Horace

  Fate, Add, Each Day

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• Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

  Horace

  Vices, Fleeing, Virtue

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• The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

  Horace

  Use, Gains, Misers

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, 170,

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• It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

  Horace

  Patience, Can Not, Lighters

  "Carmina", I. 24. 19 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 583-584), 1922.

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• Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

  Horace

  Wise, Military, Venture

  Horace (1878). “Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica”

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• Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

  Horace

  Death, Kings, Men

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• Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

  Horace

  House, Forgetful, Tombs

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• Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

  Horace

  Lying, Two, Opposites

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• There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

  Horace

  Music, Singing, Want

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

  Horace

  Soul, Climate

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• Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

  Horace

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• It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

  Horace

  Art, Liars, Lying

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• Half is done when the beginning is done.

  Horace

  Latin, Done, Half

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• Humble things become the humble.

  Horace

  Humble, Humility

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 380-81, Epistles, I, 7, 44, 1922.

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