Horace Quotes

Nothing is swifter than rumor.

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Those who covet much suffer from the want.

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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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You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

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When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

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You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

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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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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

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

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A man of refined taste and judgment.

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The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

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The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

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Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

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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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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

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