Horace Quotes, Cutting Quotes, Iron Quotes

I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

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Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

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Work at it night and day.

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I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

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Hatched in the same nest.

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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Make a good use of the present.

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In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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What has not wasting time impaired?

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

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The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

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