Horace Quotes

Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember

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