Horace Quotes

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He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

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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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We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

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Don’t think, just do.

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We are but dust and shadow.

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Carpe diem. (Seize The Day)

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant’s threatening countenance.

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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

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Fidelity is the sister of justice.

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If you wish people to weep, you must weep first.

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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

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Anger is a short madness.

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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

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Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.

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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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Surely a Man may speak Truth with a smiling countenance.

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What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.

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For my part, whether sailing in cruiser or dinghy, I shall remain myself. My sails are not puffed out with the north wind in my favour, nor am I beating into the southern gales of affliction.

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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

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Not him with great possessions should you in truth call blest; with better right does he claim the name of happy man who realizes how to make use of the gods’ gifts wisely, is skilled to meet harsh poverty and endure, as one who dreads dishonor far more than death; a man like that for friends beloved, or for his country fears not to perish.

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

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As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

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He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that will make money for the publisher, cross the seas, and extend the fame of the author.

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It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

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Treacherous ashes hide The fires through which you stride.

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

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I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

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Many words shall revive, which now have fallen off; and many which are now in esteem shall fall off,

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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Whatever advice you give, be brief.