Horace Quotes, Light Quotes

The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

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Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

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In giving advice I advise you, be short.

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Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

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No one is content with his own lot.

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Make a good use of the present.

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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

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Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

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Wine unlocks the breast.

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The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

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As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

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Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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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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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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