Horace Quotes, Two Quotes, Purple Quotes

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

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By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!

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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

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Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

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Limbs of a dismembered poet.

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Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

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Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

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He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

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Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

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Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

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Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

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You are judged of by what you possess.

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He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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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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The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

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