Horace Quotes - Page 33

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• Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

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  Light, Shining, Cover Ups

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, I. 6. 24, 20 BC.

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• In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

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  Work, Obscure, Recreation

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• Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

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  Nature, Pitchforks, Nevertheless

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• Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

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  Sometimes, Worthy

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• Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

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  Ciphers, Earth, Fruit

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• Whatever your advice, make it brief.

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  Advice

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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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• It is grievous to be caught.

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  Prison, Caught

  "Satires". Book I. 2. 134,

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• Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

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  Kings, Real, Greatness

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• The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

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  Adversity, Too Much, Delight

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• My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

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  Anger, Feelings, Difficult

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

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• You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

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  Art, Reading, Mean

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• While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

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  Running, Opposites, Faults

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• Anger is a momentary madness.

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  Anger, Madness, Momentary

  "The Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62,

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• Books have their destinies.

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  Book, Destiny

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• When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

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  Struggle, Obscure, Ends

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• We are all gathered to the same fold.

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  Brotherhood, Folds

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• What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.

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  Heirs, Share, Rescue

  Horace (1835). “Horace: The Epistles, book I-II. The Art of poetry. Appendix, containing translations of various odes, &c”, p.185

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• The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

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  Hope, Reaching

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• Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

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  Hair, Years, Tears

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

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

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  Poetry, Anvils, Ill

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• The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

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  Caring, Toil, Fowl

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• Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

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  Rome, Noise, Wealth

  "Carmina", III. 29. 11, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 677, 1922.

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• Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities.
  [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

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  Writing, Authorship, Ability

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• Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
  [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

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  Writing, Care, Authorship

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