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Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

Horace

Latin, Insulting, Victory

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In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.
[Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

Horace

Death, Names

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Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

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Ridicule, Employed, Severity

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Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

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Wealth, Fortune, Nameless

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Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

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Ocean, Heart, Firsts

Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.5

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If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

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Envy, Silence, Crow

"Epistles", I. 17. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 690-91, 1922.

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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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Rivers, Lakes, Sea

"Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

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Anger, Cutting, Punishment

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They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

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Travel, Happy Life, Sea

"Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Horace

Death, Running, Law

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What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Horace

Men, Faces, Good Sense

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For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

Horace

Honor, Riches, Influence

"Satires", II. 3. 94, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

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Humor, Matter, Jest

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To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

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Men, Favour, Court

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Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

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Pain, Pleasure, Despise

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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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Enough, Sufficiency, Asks

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 133-36, Epistles, I. 2. 46, 1922.

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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

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Leader, Soul, Return

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 524-25, Carmina, IV. 8, 1922.

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Horace

Literature, Sullen, Modesty

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Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

Horace

Heaven, May, Posse

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Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

Horace

Moving, Justice, Wicked

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

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Strong, Freedom, 4th Of July

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Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

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Thinking, Years, Heaven

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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

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Hard Work, Brain, Nails

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No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

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Men, Duty

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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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Thieves, Poor, Owners

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Born: December 8, 65 BC
Died: November 27, 8 BC
Occupation: Poet
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