Horace Quotes

Nothing is achieved without toil.

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What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

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Believe it, future generations.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

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Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

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All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

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Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

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He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

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My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

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Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

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Words challenge eternity.

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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

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