Horace Quotes, Want Quotes

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]

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Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

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Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

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What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

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The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

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Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

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Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

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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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The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

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Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

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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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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

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Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

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