Horace Quotes, Challenges Quotes

Words challenge eternity.

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Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

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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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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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The grammarians are arguing.

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In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

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God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

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The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

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Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

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Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

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Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

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Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

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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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Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

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Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

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In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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