Horace Quotes, Latin Quotes, Mad Quotes

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

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There is moderation in everything.

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I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

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An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

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

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The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

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Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

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Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

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The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat., Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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To drink away sorrow.

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In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

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

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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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