Horace Quotes, Men Quotes, Mad Quotes

I teach that all men are mad.

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The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

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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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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

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

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And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

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Busy idleness urges us on.

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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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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

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If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

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A poem is like a painting.

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Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

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