Horace Quotes

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• Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Remember to be calm in adversity.

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  Adversity, Calm, Remember

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• Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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  Education, Wisdom, Book

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• Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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  Speech, Action, Modest

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• Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Horace

  Anger, Passion, Madness

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62, c. 20 BC.

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• No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

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  Wine, Water, Drinkers

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• Be smart, drink your wine.

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  Smart, Wine, Simple

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• Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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  Life, Work, Hardship

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire ix, line 59, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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• Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

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  Laughter, Joy, Love And Laughter

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• They change their skies,
  but not their souls
  who run across the sea.

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  Running, Travel, Sea

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• Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

  Horace

  Motivation, Rain, Fate

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• Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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  Running, Courage, Procrastination

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• Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

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  Running, Teaching, Mind

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• The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

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  Eye, Men, People

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• He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

  Horace

  Motivational, Positive, Wise

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, lines 40 - 41, c. 20 BC-14 BC.

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• If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

  Horace

  Kings, Feet, Giving

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• Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

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  Attitude, Soul, Relax

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• Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

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  Beautiful, Fear, Views

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• He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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  Life, Doe, Littles

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, 20 BC.

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• Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

  Horace

  Latin, Play, Fool

  "The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory".

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• He who is greedy is always in want.

  Horace

  Money, Greed, Investing

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• Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
  [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et
  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro
  Appone.]

  Horace

  Future, Stores, Cease

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