Horace Quotes, Death Quotes, Kings Quotes

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

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Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

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That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

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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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Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

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Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

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The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

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All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

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Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

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Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

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A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

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For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

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In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

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I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

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Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

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Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

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