Horace Quotes, Victory Quotes, Moments Quotes

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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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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At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

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There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

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Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

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

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No man is born without faults.

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The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

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It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

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The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

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False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

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Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

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He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

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The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

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Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

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If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

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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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