Horace Quotes, Eye Quotes, Years Quotes

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

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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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Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

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Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

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Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

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When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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Who's started has half finished.

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You are judged of by what you possess.

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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

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

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What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

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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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I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

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