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Horace Quotes - Page 16

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Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Courage, Ambition, Loss

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

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Time, Men, Years

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

Rivers, Lakes, Sea

"Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

Names, Heaven, Earth

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

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

Men, Sage, May

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

Enough, Sufficiency, Asks

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 133-36, Epistles, I. 2. 46, 1922.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Suffering, May, Poverty

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

Wine, Dry Up, Smell

The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

Horse, Ears, Mouths

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

Fall, Joy, Birth

Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

Wealth, Fortune, Nameless

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

Judging, Doe, Corruption

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, pp. 411-412, ("Satires", Book II. 2. 8), 1922.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Leader, Soul, Return

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 524-25, Carmina, IV. 8, 1922.

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

Pain, Pleasure, Despise

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

Endeavour, Circumstances

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

Order, Poetry, Tribes

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

Death, Matter, Boundaries

Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.262

Punishment follows close on crime.

Punishment, Crime

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 649-652, Carmina, IV. 5. 24, 1922.

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

Mean, Envy, Tutus

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

Envy, Silence, Crow

"Epistles", I. 17. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 690-91, 1922.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

Men, Favour, Court

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

Friends, Wise, Kings

Horace (1709). “Horace: Of the Art of Poetry: A Poem”, p.17

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

Destiny, Trying, Ends

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

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

Country, Country Love, Able

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 141-42, Carmina II. 16. 19, 1922.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Anger, Cutting, Punishment

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