Horace Quotes, Virtue Quotes

I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

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Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

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To drink away sorrow.

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It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

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The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

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In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

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Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

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Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

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The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

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Anger is brief madness

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

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No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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Gold will be slave or master.

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Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

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Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

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Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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