Horace Quotes, Latin Quotes

The same night awaits us all.

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

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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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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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Be smart, drink your wine.

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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

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As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

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The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

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Anger is a momentary madness.

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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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If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

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Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

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