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• Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

  Horace

  Sports, War, Wrath

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

  Horace

  Book, Fate, Live For Today

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• Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

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  Noble, Wealth, Descent

  "Satires", II. 5. 8, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

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• To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

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  Happiness, Men, Way

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 6, l. 1

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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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• It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

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  Speak, Difficult, Universal

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

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

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  Brother, Noble, Pairs

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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 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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• To drink away sorrow.

  Horace

  Sorrow, Drink

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• A greater liar than the Parthians.

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

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  Wine, Wrath, Secret

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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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• Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

  Horace

  Play, Fierce, Strife

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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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• Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.

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  Rain, Fall, Sea

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• Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

  Horace

  Morrow

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• Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

  Horace

  Men, Tales, Inquisitive

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• Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

  Horace

  Gold, Silver, Virtue

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• Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

  Horace

  Fall, Weight, Judgment

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• Take heed lest you stumble.

  Horace

  Heed

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• The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

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  Mind, Excess, Body

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• The bowl dispels corroding cares.

  Horace

  Care, Bowls

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• I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

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  Obscure, Strive, Miscellaneous

  'Ars Poetica' l. 25

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• Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
  The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

  Horace

  Men, Effort, Rewards

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