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• We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

  Horace

  Acceptance, Men, Faults

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd.
  [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]

  Horace

  Cute, Shining, May

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• Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

  Horace

  Events, May, Looking Forward

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• A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

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  Wise, Future, Darkness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 304-06, Carmina, III. 29. 29, 1922.

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• It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

  Horace

  Sweet, Drink, Homeland

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• Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

  Horace

  Life, Success, Money

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• While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

  Horace

  Talking, No Trust, Fleeing

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• Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year.
  [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

  Horace

  Years, Authorship, Written

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• The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.

  Horace

  Kings, Children, Earth

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• Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

  Horace

  Insanity, Fool, Sane

  Horace (1853). “Opera omnia”, p.461

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• It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

  Horace

  Way, Common, Speak

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• To grow a philosopher's beard.

  Horace

  Beard, Philosopher, Grows

  Horace, Smith Palmer Bovie (2002). “Satires and Epistles”, p.112, University of Chicago Press

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• Dull winter will re-appear.

  Horace

  Winter, Dull

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• He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

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  Feet, Long, Half

  Ars Poetica l. 97

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• Plant no other tree before the vine.

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  Tree, Vines, Plant

  "Carmina", I. 18, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 812-14, 1922.

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• One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.
  [Lat., Omnes una manet nox,
  Et calcanda semel via leti.]

  Horace

  Death, Night, Way

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• I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

  Horace

  Brass, Raised, Monument

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• The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

  Horace

  Latin, Mad, Insane

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• No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

  Horace

  Latin

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• The same night awaits us all.

  Horace

  Latin, Night

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

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• Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

  Horace

  Father, Parent, Caverns

  Horace (1901). “Q. Horatii Flacci Odæ, Epodæ, Carmen sæculare”

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• A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

  Horace

  Gains, Approval, Pleasant

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• Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Golden

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode x, line 5, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

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• Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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  Hero, Night, Agamemnon

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• What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

  Horace

  Justice, Modesty, Found

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 520-21, Carmina, I. 24. 6, 1922.

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