Horace Quotes - Page 18

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• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

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  Wine, Mean, Light

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• The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

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  Mean, Wealth, Given

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• Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?
  [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

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  Money, Use, Fortune

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• Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

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  Years, Fleeting, Aging

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• I am not what I once was.
  [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

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  Change

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• Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

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  Battle, Crime, Ancestor

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 618-19. Odes, Book I. 2. 23, 1922.

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• Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

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  Life, Everyday, Asking

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• My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

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  Truth, Inquiry, Care

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• The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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  Stupid, Water, Literature

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• How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
  [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem,
  Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa
  Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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  Doe, Different, Ratios

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• "Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

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  Giving, Liberty, Poet

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• Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods.
  [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]

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  Knows

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• A man polished to the nail.
  [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

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  Home, Men, Nails

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• It is not permitted that we should know everything.

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  Should, Knows

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• The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

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  Snow, Tree, Lasts

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• Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

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  Two, Purple, Giving

  "Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)". Poem by Horace (line 14), circa 18 BC.

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• Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?
  What does not destructive time destroy?

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  Time, Doe, Dies

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• The dispute is still before the judge.

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  Latin, Judging, Disputes

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• Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

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  Latin, Example, Doe

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• Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

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  Grieving, Doors, Cottages

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• Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great:
  That ample urn holds all men's names.

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  Fate, Destiny, Men

  "Odes and Epodes".

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• What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

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  Art, Wine, Glasses

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• Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

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  Wall, Guilt, Pale

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• The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

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  Horse, Eagles, Brave

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• The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

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  Sauce, Eating, Pleasure

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