Horace Quotes, Moon Quotes, New Moon Quotes

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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Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

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The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.

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Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

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Force without reason falls of its own weight.

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There is moderation in everything.

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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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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

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The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

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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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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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A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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Hatched in the same nest.

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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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Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

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I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

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