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• In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
  [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

  Horace

  Speech, Obscure, Concise

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• Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

  Horace

  Life, Past, Guests

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• A pauper in the midst of wealth.

  Horace

  Wealth, Midst

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

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• One Sallow does not make Summer.

  Horace

  Summer, Latin, Doe

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• From the egg to the apple.

  Horace

  Latin, Eggs, Apples

  Horace (1836). “The works of Horace: translated literally into English prose; for the use of those who are desirous of acquiring or recovering a competent knowledge of the Latin language”, p.29

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• The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

  Horace

  Latin, Yoke, Tribes

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• Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

  Horace

  Hours, Accepting, Gladness

  "Horace, the Odes and Epodes: With an English Translation".

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• Happy he who far from business persuits
  Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands
  With oxen of his own breeding
  Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

  Horace

  Oxen, Land, Yoke

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• He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

  Horace

  Integrity, Way, Sin

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• No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

  Horace

  Long, Giving, Water

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 19, l. 1

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• Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
  (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

  Horace

  Sea, Sky, Soul

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• Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
  The surest guard is innocence:
  None knew, till guilt created fear,
  What darts or poisoned arrows were

  Horace

  Arrows, Guilt, Needs

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• I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

  Horace

  Father, Sunshine, Clouds

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book III, ode xxix, line 41, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

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• How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

  Horace

  Mind, Praise, Greedy

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• Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

  Horace

  Country, Sweet, Glorious

  Horace (1893). “The Works of Horace”

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• That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

  Horace

  Sloth, Sirens, Laziness

  "Satires". II. 3. 14,

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• If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

  Horace

  Nature, Way, Pitchforks

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

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• Drawing is the true test of art.

  Horace

  Art, Drawing, Tests

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• To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

  Horace

  Jobs, Half, Sensible

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 40

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• Busy idleness urges us on.

  Horace

  Busy, Urges, Idleness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 384-85, Epistles, Book I, XI. 28, 1922.

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• The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

  Horace

  Heaven, Doe, Praise

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• Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

  Horace

  Mad, Insanity, Spares

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• It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

  Horace

  Hero, Differences, Oratory

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, CXIV,

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• Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

  Horace

  Pleasure, Source

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Ars Poetica, 338, 1922.

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