Horace Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Years Quotes

Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

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The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

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There is no retracing our steps.

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Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.

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O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

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

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Plant no other tree before the vine.

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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

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The words can not return.

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A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

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Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

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Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

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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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Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

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There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]

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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]

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Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

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Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

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