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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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• That best of blessings, a contented mind.

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  Blessing, Mind

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.393, Delphi Classics

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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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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A good scare is worth more than good advice.

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  Funny, Advice, Simple Life

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• Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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  Speech, Action, Modest

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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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• He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

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  Arms, Study, Virtue

  Horace (1770). “The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes”, p.233

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

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  Education, Wisdom, Book

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• Remember to be calm in adversity.

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  Adversity, Calm, Remember

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• Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

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  Lying, Two, Opposites

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• Don't just think, do.

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  Thinking, Philanthropy

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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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• 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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• Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

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  Distance, Pieces, Fancy

  Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

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

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  Anger, Passion, Madness

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

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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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• Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

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  Sour, Turns, Vessel

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• Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

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  Beautiful, Fear, Views

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

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  Wise, War, Men

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