Horace Quotes, Men Quotes, Vices Quotes

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

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The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

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Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

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The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

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Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.

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These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

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Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

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O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

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The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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Every old poem is sacred.

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

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The covetous man is ever in want.

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Nothing is achieved without toil.

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

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