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Horace Quotes - Page 10

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Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Distance, Pieces, Fancy

Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

Men, Every Man

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Punishment, Guilt, Companion

The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

Light, Now And Then

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

Health, Exercise, Trying

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

Soul, Climate

Words challenge eternity.

Challenges, Eternity

Horace (1733). “Q. Horatii Flacci de Arte Poetica liber ... Horace's treatise concerning the Art of Poetry; together with notes critical, historical, and poetical, by the Earl of Roscommon”, p.29

The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

Latin, Again And Again, Pleasant

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

Liars, Alarms, Doe

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

Care, Riches, Consumerism

Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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

Gay, Good Things

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Wall, Fire, Neighbor

"Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle xviii, line 84, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Teacher, Want, Teach

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Self, Discipline, Mind

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

Political, Fickle, Politics

"Epistles". Book by Horace, I. 19. 37,

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

Sin, Virtue, Refrain

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

Ifs

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

Men, Fingertips, Accomplished

'Satires' bk. 1, no. 5, l. 32

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Wish, Literature, Poet

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

Make a good use of the present.

Time, Use, Time Management

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

Giving, Propriety, Ifs

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

Inspirational, Welcome, Hours

He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

Life, Rivers, Waiting

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Acceptance, Forbidden, Lighters

Don't just put it off and think about it!

Thinking, Charity, Philanthropy

Daniel H. Garrison, Horace (1998). “Horace: Epodes and Odes”, p.335, University of Oklahoma Press

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