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

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  Education, Wisdom, Book

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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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• Don't just think, do.

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  Thinking, Philanthropy

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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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• He who is greedy is always in want.

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  Money, Greed, Investing

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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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• 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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• 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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• Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen.
  [Lat., Quod medicorum est
  Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

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  Business, Physicians, Tools

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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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• 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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• Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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  Speech, Action, Modest

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

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  Motivational, Positive, Wise

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

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• When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

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  Latin, Voice, Together

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• Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

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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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• Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

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  Beautiful, Fear, Views

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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.

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  Motivation, Rain, Fate

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• Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

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  Mistress, Use, Literature

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• It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

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  Courage, Adversity, Blood

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• Mistakes are their own instructors

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  Mistake, Instructors

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