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

  Horace

  Busy, Inertia, Urges

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• Luck cannot change birth.

  Horace

  Luck, Birth

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• Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

  Horace

  Men, Mediocrity, Poet

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• I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
  [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

  Horace

  Sky, Reign, Praise

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• If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.
  [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
  Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

  Horace

  Stars, Poet, Strikes

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• I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
  [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
  Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

  Horace

  Cutting, Iron, Vices

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

  Horace

  Woods, Timber, Labor

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• All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
  [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

  Horace

  Money, Powerful, Giving

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• Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
  [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
  Fortuna non mutat genus.]

  Horace

  Money, Proud, Birth

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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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• To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
  [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]

  Horace

  Olympus

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• A man perfect to the finger tips.

  Horace

  Men, Perfect, Fingers

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• An undertaking beset with danger.

  Horace

  Danger, Undertakings

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

  Horace

  Heart, Cold

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• It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

  Horace

  Influence, Grapes, Cato

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

  Horace

  Vases, Pot

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• Joking apart, now let us be serious.

  Horace

  Serious

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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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• The question is yet before the court.

  Horace

  Court

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• The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

  Horace

  Country, Race, Towns

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• There are faults we would fain pardon.

  Horace

  Faults, Pardon

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• There is no retracing our steps.

  Horace

  Steps

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• There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

  Horace

  Nuts, Olives, Hard

  Horace (1902). “The poems of Horace”

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