Horace Quotes, Horse Quotes, Envy Quotes

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

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Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

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What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitt'ring all his state.

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He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

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It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

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That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

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Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

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Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

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Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

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The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

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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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We get blows and return them.

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That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

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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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Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

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