Horace Quotes

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

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He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]

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He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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He is not poor who has a competency.

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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

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Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

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Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

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Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

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Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

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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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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

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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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Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

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