Horace Quotes, Use Quotes, Poverty Quotes

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

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A crafty knave needs no broker.

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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

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Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

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Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

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Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

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There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

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Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

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What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

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Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

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Take heed lest you stumble.

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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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No man is born without faults.

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I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

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What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

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