Horace Quotes, Mind Quotes, Praise Quotes

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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Dull winter will re-appear.

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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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I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

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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.]

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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

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Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

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Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

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Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

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The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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Humble things become the humble.

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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

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He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

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