Horace Quotes - Page 33

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• Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

  Horace

  Memories, Men, Recollection

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• Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

  Horace

  Death, Art, Kings

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• Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

  Horace

  Eye, Years, Literature

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• Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

  Horace

  Opportunity

  "Epodon". XIII. 3,

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• When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars,
  And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

  Horace

  Fear, War, Atheism

  "The Works of Horace".

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• Believe it, future generations.

  Horace

  Believe, Generations, Future Generation

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• High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

  Horace

  Useless, Deeds, Wealth

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• When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

  Horace

  Becoming, Wealth, Caution

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• Summer treads on heels of spring.

  Horace

  Summer, Spring, Heels

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

  Horace

  Happy, Enjoy, Present Day

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• Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

  Horace

  Heart, Cold

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• Busy idleness urges us on.
  [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

  Horace

  Busy, Inertia, Urges

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• Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
  [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est;
  Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

  Horace

  Heaven, Strive, Difficult

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• Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.

  Horace

  Return, Discarded, Has Beens

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• A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
  [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

  Horace

  Wise, Future, Darkness

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• To carry timber into the wood.
  [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

  Horace

  Woods, Timber, Labor

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• The question is yet before the court.

  Horace

  Court

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• What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
  [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
  Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

  Horace

  Mountain, Ridiculous, Born

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• There is no retracing our steps.

  Horace

  Steps

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• Whatever your advice, make it brief.

  Horace

  Advice

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• We get blows and return them.

  Horace

  Blow, Return

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• And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

  Horace

  Poetry, Anvils, Ill

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• Luck cannot change birth.

  Horace

  Luck, Birth

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• Joking apart, now let us be serious.

  Horace

  Serious

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• It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

  Horace

  Vases, Pot

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