Horace Quotes, Long Quotes, Giving Quotes

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

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And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

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Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

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Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

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Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

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I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

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We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]

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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

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Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

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Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

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Every old poem is sacred.

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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

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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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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

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