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.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• We are free to yield to truth.

  Horace

  Freedom, Yield

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  90 Copy quote

• Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

  Horace

  Wall, Faults, Sides

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• Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

  Horace

  Speech, Action, Modest

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• Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

  Horace

  Courage, Ambition, Loss

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

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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.

  Horace

  Running, Courage, Procrastination

  70 Copy quote

• 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.

  Horace

  Art, Men, Psychology

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  112 Copy quote

• Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

  Horace

  Thankful, Future

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

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• Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

  Horace

  Latin, Mind, Calm

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• Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

  Horace

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

  43 Copy quote

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

  Horace

  Patience, May, Made

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

  11 Copy quote

• He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

  Horace

  Life, Doe, Littles

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, 20 BC.

  28 Copy quote

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

  Horace

  Wise, War, Men

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• Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

  Horace

  Time, Past, Weight Loss

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

  Horace

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  81 Copy quote

• Mistakes are their own instructors

  Horace

  Mistake, Instructors

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• That best of blessings, a contented mind.

  Horace

  Blessing, Mind

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

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

  Horace

  Wise, Wisdom, Cages

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

  34 Copy quote

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

  Horace

  Stupid, Men, Lessons To Be Learned

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

  Horace

  Men, Abstinence, Deny

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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.

  Horace

  Eye, Men, People

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• Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

  Horace

  Beautiful, Fear, Views

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

  Horace

  Speech, Wells, Subjects

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