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Horace Quotes - Page 18

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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Mean, Admiration, Lost

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

Strong, Freedom, 4th Of July

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Art, Greek, Genius

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Hard Work, Brain, Nails

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

Opportunity, May, Lasts

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

Age, Inclination

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

Honor, Riches, Influence

"Satires", II. 3. 94, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

Latin, Insulting, Victory

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

Light, Confusion, Obscure

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

Interesting, Poetry, Enough

"Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, 99, 18 BC.

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

Gay, Sorrow, Sorrowful

"Epistles", I. 18. 89, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 733-36, 1922.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Power, Risk, Fancy

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

Wall, Powerful, Gold

Horace, Philip FRANCIS (D.D.) (1815). “The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis”, p.103

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Time, May, Today

We are free to yield to truth.

Freedom, Yield

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

Home, Sunset, Mind

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

Punishment, Terrible, Pursue

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Philosophy, Educational, Words Of Wisdom

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

Desire

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

One Day, Life Is

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

Mind, May

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Character, Consistency, Ends

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

Adversity, Genius, Fortune

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Writing, Parent, Literature

Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

Powerful, Blow, Rocks

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