Horace Quotes, One Day Quotes

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

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In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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

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The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

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The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

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Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

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Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

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I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

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If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

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What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

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Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

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He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

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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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What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

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