Horace Quotes - Page 31

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• At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

  Horace

  Rome

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• By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!

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  Heaven, My Friends, Destroyed

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• Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

  Horace

  Laughter, My Friends

  Horace (1938). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.

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  Lessons, Enjoy, Forefathers

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• Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

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  Dark, Night, Issues

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• That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

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  Life, Past, Men

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• It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

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  Country, Sweet, Patriotic

  Horace (1908). “Horace: Quintus Horatius Flaccus ... the Roman Poet Presented to Modern Readers”

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• In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

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  Boys, Play, Mirth

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• Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

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  Character, Lasts, Consistent

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• One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

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  Latin, Wicked, Laziness

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• That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

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  Giving, Poetry, Pleasure

  'Odes' bk. 4, no. 3, l. 24

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• Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

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  Mind, Spills, Superfluous

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• There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

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  Running, Needs, May

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• Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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  Obscure, Brevity

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• The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
  [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

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  Change, Horse, Lazy

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• However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

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  Names, Desire, Imperfect

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• Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

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  Mind, Care, Morrow

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• Limbs of a dismembered poet.

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  Latin, Poet, Limbs

  Satires bk. 1, no. 4, l. 62

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• The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

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  Passion, Want, Poet

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• It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

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  Way, Common, Individual

  'Ars Poetica' l. 128

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• I am doubting what to do.

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  Latin, Doubt

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• Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

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  Sometimes, Worthy

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• It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
  [Lat., Delere licebit
  Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

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  Spoken Word, Written Word, Recalls

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• The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
  [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

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  Sports, Broken, Shame

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• You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

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  Playing Games, Drunk, Enough

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