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

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  Wine, Water, Drinkers

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

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  Speech, Wells, Subjects

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

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  Anger, Passion, Madness

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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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• 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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• 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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• Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

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  Attitude, Soul, Relax

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

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  Latin, Play, Fool

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

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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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• 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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• 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

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• Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

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  Thinking, Sorrow, Dawn

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

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  Mind, Cheerful, Bitter

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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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• 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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• 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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