Horace Quotes - Page 35

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• Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

  Horace

  Grief, Joy, Morrow

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

  Horace

  Teacher, Teaching, Lessons

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• If a better system's thine,
  Impart it frankly, or make use of mine.

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  Use, Mines, Impart

  "The works of Horace".

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• Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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  Death, Dark, Needs

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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

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  Made, Eloquent, Bowls

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• Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

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  Latin, Sea, Sky

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• The good hate sin because they love virtue.
  [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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  Hate, Sin, Virtue

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• The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

  Horace

  Fire, Hazards, Ashes

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• On day is pressed on by another.

  Horace

  Time

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• Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

  Horace

  Anxiety, Hopes And Fears

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• He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

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  Succeed, Sat, Stills

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle xvii, line 37, c. 20 BC, 14 BC.

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• Anger is a short madness.

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  Wisdom, Anger, Madness

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 62

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• And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

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  Grove

  Epistles bk. 2, no. 2, l. 45

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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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• Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.

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  Friendly, Helping, One Thing

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• I want to live, and die with you.

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  Latin, Want, Dies

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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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• Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.

  Horace

  Pleasant

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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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• By wine eating cares are put to flight.
  [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

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  Wine, Care, Flight

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

  Horace

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

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  Hope, Reaching

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• There are faults we would fain pardon.

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  Faults, Pardon

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