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HORACE QUOTES II

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

HORACE, Odes

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends
The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

HORACE, Epistles

If you wish me to weep, you yourself
Must first feel grief.

HORACE, Ars Poetica

It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.

HORACE, Odes

Study carefully the character of the one you recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame.

HORACE, Epistles

O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

HORACE, Satires

We are but numbers, born to consume resources.

HORACE, Epistles

So, if 'tis wealth that makes and keeps us blest,
Be first to start and last to drop the quest.

HORACE, Epistles

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.

HORACE, Epistles

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

HORACE, Satires

Now say that it behoves us to adjust
Our lives to nature (wisdom says we must):
You want a site for building: can you find
A place that's like the country to your mind?

HORACE, Epistles

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

HORACE, Ars Poetica

Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

HORACE, Ars Poetica

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

HORACE, attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical

For nature forms our spirits to receive
Each bent that outward circumstance can give:
She kindles pleasure, bids resentment glow,
Or bows the soul to earth in hopeless woe.

HORACE, Ars Poetica

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.

HORACE, Odes

For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.

HORACE, Epistles

A picture is a poem without words.

HORACE, attributed, Sura's Quotable Quotes

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

HORACE, Epistles

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

HORACE, Odes

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

HORACE, Odes

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

HORACE, Epistles

We are but dust and shadow.

HORACE, Odes

The tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

HORACE, Satires

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

HORACE, Epistles

Live today, tomorrow is not.

HORACE, Carmina

If all sane men were marked with chalk, and the insane with charcoal, there would soon be a scarcity of chalk.

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.

HORACE, Carmina

Never inquire into another man's secret; but conceal that which is entrusted to you, though pressed both by wine and anger to reveal it.

HORACE, Epistles

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.

HORACE, Epistles

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

HORACE, Satires

We have all our vices, and the best
Is he who with the fewest is oppressed.

HORACE, attributed, Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

After serious matters, let us indulge in a season of sport.

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

HORACE, Epistles

Oh! thou who art greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

HORACE, Satires

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money.... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

HORACE, Satires

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

HORACE, Ars Poetica

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

HORACE, Satires

The best dowry a man can receive with his wife is good principles; for this is the dowry alone which preserves a family.

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

He has not spent his life badly who has passed it from his birth to his burial in privacy.

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

No property has a lasting tenure, and heir comes upon heir, as wave on wave; what real benefit is there in landed property and ever-increasing hoards?

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore these things to their proper places.

HORACE, Epodi

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart, who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

Sorrow wrings the sad soul, and bends it down to earth.

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

HORACE, Carmina

Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.

HORACE, Epodi

Merit hid from the public gaze has little advantage over sloth laid in the grave.

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

Every man should wrap himself up in the mantle of his own integrity.

HORACE, attributed, Day's Collacon

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