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Horace Quotes - Page 13

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Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

Men, Law, Judging

Horace (1717). “The Odes & Satyrs of Horace, that Have Been Done Into English by the Most Eminent Hands...: With His Art of Poetry...To this Ed. is Added Several Odes Never Before Published”, p.189

Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

Use, Firsts, Poet

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

Add, Helping, Tomorrow

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

Business, Physicians, Tools

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

Evil, Age, Wickedness

"Carmina", I. 35. 34, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 239-41, 1922.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

Running, Nature, Danger

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

Men, Envious, Fatness

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

Poverty, Turns, Beggar

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Men, Shoes, Stories

"Epistles". Book by Horace, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

Mind, Force, Strikes

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

Desire, Want, Enough

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

Evil, Grandparent, Bears

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

Crazy, Writing, Men

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Wise, Writing, Thinking

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

Music, Play, Strings

Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

Names, Stories, Subjects

I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

Spring, Garden, Land

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Assured, Mortals

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

Too Much, Pleasure, Good Things

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

Wine, Men, Secret

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

Carpe Diem, Green Fields, Remember You

Odes 11.3

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

Men, Matter, Courses

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

Guilt, Pale, Clear

"Epistles", I. 1. 60, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 130-31, 1922.

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

Sick, Funeral, Mind

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 242-43, Satires, I. 4. 126, 1922.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

May, Natural, Certain

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