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• The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

  Horace

  Wine, Long, Firsts

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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.]

  Horace

  Business, Physicians, Tools

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• What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

  Horace

  Evil, Age, Wickedness

  "Carmina", I. 35. 34, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 239-41, 1922.

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• I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

  Horace

  Death, Dying, Graves

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• As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

  Horace

  Life, Time, Believe

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• The glory is for those who deserve.

  Horace

  Latin, Glory, Deserve

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• People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

  Horace

  Latin, People, House

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• The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

  Horace

  Cheerful, Melancholy, Dislike

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• Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

  Horace

  Latin, Matter, Serious

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• Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

  Horace

  Running, Nature, Danger

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• Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

  Horace

  Future, Carpe Diem, Littles

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• Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

  Horace

  Suffering, May, Poverty

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• A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

  Horace

  Judging, Doe, Corruption

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, pp. 411-412, ("Satires", Book II. 2. 8), 1922.

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• If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

  Horace

  Justice, Records, World

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

  Horace

  Names, Heaven, Earth

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

  Horace

  Destiny, Trying, Ends

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

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• Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

  Horace

  Fall, Joy, Birth

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• The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

  Horace

  Horse, Ears, Mouths

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• I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

  Horace

  Order, Poetry, Tribes

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• His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.

  Horace

  Excited, Hours

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• Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

  Horace

  Wine, Dry Up, Smell

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• Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

  Horace

  Men, Sage, May

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• An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

  Horace

  Men, Envious, Fatness

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• Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

  Horace

  Death, Matter, Boundaries

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.262

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• Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

  Horace

  Evil, Grandparent, Bears

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