Horace Quotes

Faults are soon copied.

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Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

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The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

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Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

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Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

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

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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

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Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

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

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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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Don't long for the unripe grape.

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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

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When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

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It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

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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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Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

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Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

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The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

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In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

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