Horace Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

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I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

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Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

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Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

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Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

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Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

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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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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

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When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

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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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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

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High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

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A crafty knave needs no broker.

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What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

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All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

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