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Horace Quotes - Page 11

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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

Father, Oxen, Agriculture

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Opposites, Vices, Fool

He is not poor who has a competency.

Poor, Competencies

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

Greed, Care, Wealth

Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

Laughter, Men, Laughing

"Epistles" by Horace, Book II. 1. 262,

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

Politics, Common, Economy

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

Latin, Wrinkles, Years

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

Food, Common, Hungry

Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.94, Penguin UK

He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitt'ring all his state.

Mean, Men, Doors

Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

Littles, Nonsense, Now And Then

Never without a shilling in my purse.

Purses

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

Men, Remember, Ridicule

Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

Fire, House, Danger

Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

Light, Expression, Passionate

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

Secret, Battle, Doe

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Food, Water, Long

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

Home, Evil, Shrews

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Travel, Shoes, Feet

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

Latin, Bulls, Horns

Horace, (2016). “The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace”, p.249, Princeton University Press

Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

Corn, Grind, Eating

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Satires, I. 1. 45, 1922.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

Men, Pleasure, Profession

We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

Hate, Sight, Safe

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

War, Two, Evil

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Love, Passion, Advice

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