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• Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

  Horace

  Riches, Wealth

  "Epistles", I. 10. 47, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

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• The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

  Horace

  Men, Thinking, He Man

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.380, Delphi Classics

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• What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

  Horace

  Men, Odds, Doe

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire i, line 48, c. 35 BC.

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• Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
  Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

  Horace

  Boys, Men, Anxiety

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
  [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus
  Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

  Horace

  Wings, Peaceful, Black

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• Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
  [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

  Horace

  Curiosity, Talkers, Inquisitive

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• Death is the last limit of all things.

  Horace

  Death, Lasts, Limits

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• He that cuts off twenty years of life
  Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

  Horace

  Death, Suicide, Cutting

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• We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth.
  [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium
  Versatur urna serius, ocius
  Sors exitura.]

  Horace

  Death, Sooner Or Later, Compelled

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• Brighter than Parian marble.

  Horace

  Marble, Brighter

  Horace (1843). “The Odes of Horace, Translated by J. Scriven”, p.37

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• Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

  Horace

  Sometimes, Caught

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• Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]

  Horace

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• God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

  Horace

  Guilty, Innocent

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• Hatched in the same nest.

  Horace

  Nests

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• He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

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• He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

  Horace

  Hay, Horns, Mischievous

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• He is praised by some, blamed by others.

  Horace

  Horace, (2016). “The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace”, p.196, Princeton University Press

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• He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

  Horace

  Wife, Tales, Old Wives Tales

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• He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

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  His Love, Wealth, Grows

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• He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

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  Men, Doe, Preserves

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• He will be beloved when he is no more.

  Horace

  Beloved

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• Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

  Horace

  Heirs, Succeed, Wave

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• In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

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  Sleep, Long, May

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• Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
  [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

  Horace

  People, Royalty, Monarchs

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• I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
  [Lat., Et idem
  Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
  Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

  Horace

  Sleep, Long, Bonus

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