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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• Don't just think, do.

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  Thinking, Philanthropy

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

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  Speech, Wells, Subjects

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

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  Wine, Water, Drinkers

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• Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

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  Attitude, Soul, Relax

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Make a good use of the present.

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  Time, Use, Time Management

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• Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

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  Inspirational, Trust, Opportunity

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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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• Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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  Speech, Action, Modest

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• You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Men

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• He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever.
  [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam
  Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
  Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

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  Life, Rivers, Waiting

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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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• Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

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  Retirement, Struggle, Limits

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, Satire I, transl. by N. Rudd, v. 92-94, 2005.

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

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  Moon, New Moon, Dies

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• What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

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  Trust, Eye, Mind

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• To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
  [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici;
  Expertus metuit.]

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  Friends, Men, Intimate

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