Horace Quotes

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• Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

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  Teaching, Training, Braces

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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  Speech, Action, Modest

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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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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• Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

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  Thankful, Future

  "Carmina". Book by Horace, I. 9. 13, 13 BC.

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• No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

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  Art, Men, Psychology

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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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• 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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• Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

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  Latin, Mind, Calm

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• Mistakes are their own instructors

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  Mistake, Instructors

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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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• What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

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  Patience, May, Made

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

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• A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Cages

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

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• In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

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  Wise, War, Men

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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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• There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

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  Stupid, Men, Lessons To Be Learned

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• When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

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  Speech, Wells, Subjects

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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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• Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

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  Life, Success, Wise

  "Satires", II. 7. 83 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 878-882), 1922.

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• Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

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  Money, Slave, Increase

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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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• The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

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  Men, Abstinence, Deny

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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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• As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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  Failure, Adversity, Genius

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