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Horace Quotes - Page 12

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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Conceited, Race, Self

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

Grief, Funeral, Littles

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Time, Years, Plunder

Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Life, Men, Giving

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

Men, Hands, Giving

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 133-36, Carmina, III. 16. 42, 1922.

In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

Adversity, Gale, Prosperity

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

Fool, Shame, Mali

Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

Inspirational, Happiness, Grateful

"The Works of Horace".

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

No Trust, Seize The Day, Morrow

Odes bk. 1, no. 11, l. 7

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]

Want, Deny

Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

Mad, Fixed, Method

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

Matter, Way, Easy

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Arrows, Mark

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

Family, Parent, Dowry

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

Men, Hours, Enough

I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

Hate, Distance, Silence

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Inspirational, Anger, Irritation

A good resolve will make any port.

Adversity, Port, Resolve

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

Fiction, Should, Please

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Recovery, New Beginnings, Deeds Done

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

Knowing, Shining, Doe

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

Self, Vanity, Glasses

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Communication, Silence, Words We Speak

"Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle xviii, line 71, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

God, Humble, Proud

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

Character, Excellence, Littles

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