Horace Quotes - Page 8

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• Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

  Horace

  Distance, Pieces, Fancy

  Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

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• Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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  Vices, Fleeing, Virtue

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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.

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  Thinking, Sorrow, Dawn

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

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• If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

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  Giving, Propriety, Ifs

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• We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

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  Hate, Taken, Long

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• Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

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  Favors, Too Much, Fool

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• Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

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  Wise, Military, Venture

  Horace (1878). “Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica”

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• Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

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  Flames, Acquire, Ifs

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• Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave.
  [Lat., Tristia maestum
  Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum;
  Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

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  Light, Expression, Passionate

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• Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

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  Advise

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• Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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  Madness, Momentary

  "Epistularum liber primus (First Book of Letters)". Book by Horace (Epistle 2, line 62), 20 BC.

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• False praise can please, and calumny affright
  None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

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  Hypocrite, Praise, Vicious

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• Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

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  Gratitude

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

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  Courage, Fool, Shame

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• In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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  War, Two, Evil

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• As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

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  Care, Take Care, Translate

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• Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

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  Inspirational, Adversity, Genius

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• It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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  Art, Liars, Lying

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• To teach is to delight.

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  Delight, Teach

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• There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

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  Music, Singing, Want

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

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  Mind, Purpose, Literature

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• Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

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  Lying, Two, Opposites

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• Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

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  Doors, Return, Human Nature

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• Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

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• A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.

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  Dresses, Cups, Honestly

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