Horace Quotes, Boyhood Quotes

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

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What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

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And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

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Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

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In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

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Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

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A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

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If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

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Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

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I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

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An undertaking beset with danger.

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There is nothing assured to mortals.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

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