Horace Quotes, Arms Quotes, Study Quotes

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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Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

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Wisdom at times is found in folly.

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In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

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Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

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Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

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We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

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Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

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Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

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Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

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Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

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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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We are free to yield to truth.

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Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

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Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

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Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

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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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Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

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