Horace Quotes
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When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.
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I shall not altogether die.
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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
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Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
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Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
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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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Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.
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Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
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Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
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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.]
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The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]
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Fidelity is the sister of justice.
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Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
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The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
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By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
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The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.
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With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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He will be beloved when he is no more.
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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A word once uttered can never be recalled.
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You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
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Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
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With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.
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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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