Horace Quotes, Nature Quotes, Pitchforks Quotes

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

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Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

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Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

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While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

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The grammarians are arguing.

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

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He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitt'ring all his state.

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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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The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

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Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

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The words can not return.

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When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

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I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

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

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