Horace Quotes - Page 7

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• Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

  Horace

  Hours, Pleasure, Enjoy

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• Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

  Horace

  Teaching, Mind, Vim

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• Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

  Horace

  Lying, Talent, Dormant

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• Wisdom at times is found in folly.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Found, Folly

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• I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

  Horace

  Distance, Profane

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• The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

  Horace

  Care, Wealth, Increase

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• Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

  Horace

  Pain, Doe, Pleasure

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• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

  Horace

  Wine, Light, Soul

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• To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
  [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici;
  Expertus metuit.]

  Horace

  Friends, Men, Intimate

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• The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

  Horace

  Earth, Graves, Beggar

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• The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

  Horace

  Men, Tyrants, Citizens

  "Carmina (Odes)". Book by Jorace (Book III, Ode III, line 1), 23 BC.

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• I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

  Horace

  Hate, I Hate, Irreverent

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• Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

  Horace

  Moving, Exercise, Effort

  "The Molecular Biology of Cancer: A Bridge from Bench to Bedside". Book by Stella Pelengaris, p. 376, March 5, 2013.

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• Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

  Horace

  Break Through, Gold, Stones

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• The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

  Horace

  Courage, Men, Citizens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 142-44, Carmina, III. 3. 1, 1922.

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• No man is born without faults.

  Horace

  Men, Faults, Born

  Horace, William SMART (M.A.) (1830). “Horace literally translated, for the use of students. By William Smart, etc. [In prose.]”, p.131

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• Who's started has half finished.

  Horace

  Half, Finished

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• Splendidly mendacious.
  [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

  Horace

  Lying

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• Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.

  Horace

  Temper, Subjection

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• We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

  Horace

  Life, Inspire, Age

  "Satires" by Horace, Book I, satire i, line 117, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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• Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death.
  [Lat., Truditur dies die,
  Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

  Horace

  Moon, New Moon, Dies

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• Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

  Horace

  Vices, Fleeing, Virtue

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• This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

  Horace

  Prayer, Garden, Land

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• Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

  Horace

  Flames, Acquire, Ifs

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• Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

  Horace

  Thinking, Sorrow, Dawn

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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