Horace Quotes, Obscure Quotes, Strive Quotes

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

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I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

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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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I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

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Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

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Humble things become the humble.

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My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

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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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The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

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To know all things is not permitted.

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Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

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Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

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Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

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Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

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We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

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