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Horace Quotes - Page 15

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Music is an incitement to love.

Music is an incitement to love.

Incitement, Music Is

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

Money, Use, Fortune

I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

Change

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

Truth, Inquiry, Care

Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

Law, Use, Immortality

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

Reading, Writing, Editing

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

Home, Thinking, May

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

Victory, Moments, Joyful

Every old poem is sacred.

Art, Poetry, Sacred

I shall not altogether die.

Death, Dies

Odes bk. 3, no. 30, l. 6

Anger is short-lived madness.

Wise, Anger, Emotion

Epistles I.II.62

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

Latin, Men, Forget

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

Moon, Fire, Shining

O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

Sweet, Solace, Labor

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

Death, Kings, Towers

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

Sea, Hug, Storm

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

Men, Hands, He Man

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Literature, Matter, Failing

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Littles, Virtue, Economy

His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.

Excited, Hours

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

Horse, Envy, Lazy

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

Heaven, May, Posse

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

Justice, Records, World

Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

Prayer, Garden, Land

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Ridicule, Employed, Severity

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