Horace quotes - page 3

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you. (Horace)
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure. View quote
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. View quote
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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. View quote
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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. View quote
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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? View quote
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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. View quote
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Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. View quote
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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. View quote
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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. View quote
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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom and the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherla. (Horace)
Whatever advice you give, be short. View quote
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Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen. View quote
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. View quote
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. View quote
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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? View quote
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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. View quote
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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. View quote
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Life is largely a matter of expectation. View quote
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. View quote
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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. (Horace)
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. View quote
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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it. View quote
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. View quote
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Poets wish to profit or to please. View quote
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Horace

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Occupation: Roman Poet
Born: 65 BC
Died: 8 BC
Quotes count: 258
Wikipedia: Horace

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