Horace Quotes, Want Quotes

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]

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I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

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Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

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Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

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There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

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Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

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Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

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There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

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Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.

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Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

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A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

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

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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

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Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

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The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

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