Horace Quotes - Page 28

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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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• Small things become small folks.

  Horace

  Folks, Small Things

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.368, Delphi Classics

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• A greater liar than the Parthians.

  Horace

  Liars, Greater

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

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• To drink away sorrow.

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  Sorrow, Drink

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• A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse.
  [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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  Poetry, Matter, Comic

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• Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
  [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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  Poetry, Substance, Trifles

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• A noble pair of brothers.
  [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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  Brother, Noble, Pairs

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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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• It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

  Horace

  Speak, Difficult, Universal

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Line 128, c. 18 BC.

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• Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

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  Book, Fate, Live For Today

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

  Horace

  Latin, Yoke, Tribes

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• One Sallow does not make Summer.

  Horace

  Summer, Latin, Doe

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

  Horace

  Life, Past, Guests

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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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• Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.

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  Sweet, Love Making, Despise

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

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  Integrity, Way, Sin

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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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• Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

  Horace

  Games, Tasks, Shifting

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• Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

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  Play, Fierce, Strife

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• Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

  Horace

  Wine, Wrath, Secret

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