Horace Quotes - Page 15

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• He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

  Horace

  Time, May, Today

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• Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

  Horace

  Poverty, Turns, Beggar

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• He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

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  Desire, Want, Enough

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• What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

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  Mind, Force, Strikes

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• If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

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  Men, Shoes, Stories

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

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• The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

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  Music, Play, Strings

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• Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

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  Wise, Writing, Thinking

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• Live mindful of how brief your life is.

  Horace

  One Day, Life Is

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• The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

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  Crazy, Writing, Men

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• I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

  Horace

  Spring, Garden, Land

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• There is nothing assured to mortals.

  Horace

  Assured, Mortals

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• Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

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  Too Much, Pleasure, Good Things

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

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  Carpe Diem, Green Fields, Remember You

  Odes 11.3

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• When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

  Horace

  Men, Matter, Courses

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• Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

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  Guilt, Pale, Clear

  "Epistles", I. 1. 60, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 130-31, 1922.

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• Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

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  Wine, Men, Secret

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• As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

  Horace

  Sick, Funeral, Mind

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 242-43, Satires, I. 4. 126, 1922.

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• You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

  Horace

  Happiness, Men, Names

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 350-52, Carmina, IX, Book 4. 9. 45, 1922.

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• You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

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  May, Natural, Certain

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• Anger is a brief lunacy.

  Horace

  Anger, Rage, Lunacy

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• Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

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  Wicked, Riches, Increase

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• The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

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  Fall, Wind, Towers

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• For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

  Horace

  Example, Add, Mouths

  "Satires", Book I, I, 33, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 30, 1922.

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• The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.

  Horace

  Hours

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• Nothing is achieved without toil.

  Horace

  Toil

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