Horace Quotes, Anxiety Quotes

Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

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Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

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Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

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Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

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As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

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Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

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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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Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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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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When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

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However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

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Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

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In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

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