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• Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

  Horace

  Son, Giving, Age

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

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• The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

  Horace

  Treasure, May, Contemplating

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• A crafty knave needs no broker.

  Horace

  Needs, Knaves, Crime

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• The covetous are always in want.

  Horace

  Want

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• The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

  Horace

  Wine, Praise, Drunkards

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• The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

  Horace

  Difficulty, Explanation

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• What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

  Horace

  Grief, Men, Limits

  "Carmina" by Horace, I. 24. 1,

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• Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

  Horace

  Men, Car, Wheels

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 313-14, Satires, I. 6. 23, 1922.

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• Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

  Horace

  Overflow, Bosoms, Superfluous

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Ars Poetica, 337, 1922.

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• I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

  Horace

  Fear, Footprint, Dens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Epistles, I. 1. 74, 1922.

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• Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

  Horace

  Despair, Guidance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 189-90, Carmina, I, 7, 27, 1922.

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• It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

  Horace

  Mind, Enough, Charm

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

  Horace

  Men, Poetry, Rate

  'Ars Poetica' l. 372

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• Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

  Horace

  Long, Add, Deliberation

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• He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold.
  [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam
  Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]

  Horace

  Boys, Goal, Suffering

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• Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn.
  [Lat., Neque semper arcum
  Tendit Apollo.]

  Horace

  Doe, Apollo, Bows

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• I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

  Horace

  Wings, Lasts, Poverty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Carmina, III. 29, 1922.

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• The gods my protectors.
  [Lat., Di me tuentur.]

  Horace

  Protector

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• Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention.
  [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

  Horace

  Worthy, Difficulty, Intervention

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• Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

  Horace

  Animal, Spirit

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• Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
  [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

  Horace

  Fortune, Incomplete

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• The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
  [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
  A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
  Nudus castra peto.]

  Horace

  Men, Heaven, Naked

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• Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

  Horace

  Night, Men, Bravery

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 82-83, Odes, Book IV, IX. 25, 1922.

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• Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
  [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

  Horace

  Money, Firsts, Wealth

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• I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

  Horace

  Brass, Lasting, Monument

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.149, Delphi Classics

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