Horace Quotes, Stupid Quotes, Silly Quotes

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

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Fidelity is the sister of justice.

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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

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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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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

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Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

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I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

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It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

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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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It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

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To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

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What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

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Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

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One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

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Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

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The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

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Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

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One cannot know everything.

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