Horace Quotes

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

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Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

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In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

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It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

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Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

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Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

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God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

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Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

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The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

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The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

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The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

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