Horace Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Heart Quotes

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

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Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.

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In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

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

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Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

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The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

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Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

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We are free to yield to truth.

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Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

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If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

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He who is greedy is always in want.

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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

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The dispute is still before the judge.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

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Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

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