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• Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

  Horace

  No Trust, Seize The Day, Morrow

  Odes bk. 1, no. 11, l. 7

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• The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
  [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

  Horace

  Fool, Shame, Mali

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• Life gives nothing to man without labor.

  Horace

  Life, Men, Giving

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• Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

  Horace

  Men, Hands, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 133-36, Carmina, III. 16. 42, 1922.

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• The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

  Horace

  Time, Years, Plunder

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

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• Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
  [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
  Regumque turres.]

  Horace

  Death, Kings, Towers

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• It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

  Horace

  Matter, Way, Easy

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• Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

  Horace

  Mad, Fixed, Method

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• The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

  Horace

  Family, Parent, Dowry

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• Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

  Horace

  Add, Helping, Tomorrow

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• I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
  [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
  Favete linguis.]

  Horace

  Hate, Distance, Silence

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• A good resolve will make any port.

  Horace

  Adversity, Port, Resolve

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• Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

  Horace

  Reading, Writing, Editing

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• The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Anger, Irritation

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• Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour.
  [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis
  Cautum est in horas.]

  Horace

  Men, Hours, Enough

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• Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

  Horace

  Fiction, Should, Please

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• He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

  Horace

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Deeds Done

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.
  [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae,
  Intaminatis fulget honoribus;
  Nec sumit aut ponit secures
  Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

  Horace

  Knowing, Shining, Doe

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• Music is an incitement to love.

  Horace

  Incitement, Music Is

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• Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

  Horace

  Self, Vanity, Glasses

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• Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

  Horace

  Communication, Silence, Words We Speak

  "Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle xviii, line 71, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

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• God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

  Horace

  God, Humble, Proud

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• Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
  [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae
  Celata virtus.]

  Horace

  Character, Excellence, Littles

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• Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

  Horace

  Men, Law, Judging

  Horace (1717). “The Odes & Satyrs of Horace, that Have Been Done Into English by the Most Eminent Hands...: With His Art of Poetry...To this Ed. is Added Several Odes Never Before Published”, p.189

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• Poets, the first instructors of mankind,
  Brought all things to the proper native use.

  Horace

  Use, Firsts, Poet

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