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

  Horace

  Protector

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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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• 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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• 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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• Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

  Horace

  Long, Add, Deliberation

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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!

  Horace

  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.

  Horace

  Lessons, Enjoy, Forefathers

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

  Horace

  Dark, Night, Issues

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

  Horace

  Animal, Spirit

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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.

  Horace

  Boys, Play, Mirth

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

  Horace

  Mind, Care, Morrow

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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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• 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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• Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent?
  [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

  Horace

  Made, Eloquent, Bowls

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

  Horace

  Running, Needs, May

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

  Horace

  Way, Common, Individual

  'Ars Poetica' l. 128

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

  Horace

  Passion, Want, Poet

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