Horace Quotes, Years Quotes, Wind Quotes

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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Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

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Death is the last limit of all things.

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

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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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The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

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It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

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What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

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By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

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Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

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Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

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In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

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Tear thyself from delay.

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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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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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What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?

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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

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