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Horace Quotes - Page 19

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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Imagination, Wish, Looks

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 387-88, Ars Poetica, CCCXVII, 1922.

In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

Death, Names

If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

Life, Delightful, Jokes

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Writing, Editing, Gains

He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

Latin, Wish, Lost

While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

Doors, Clients, Slips

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

Sea, Names, Wings

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 387-88, Carmina, IV, 2, 1, 1922.

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

Wise, Knowledge, Being Wise

Horace (1976). “Q. Horati Flacci Sermones et epistulae”

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Running, Nature, Romance

'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 10, l. 24

One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

Death, Night, Path

I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

Stars, Ambition, Strikes

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Time, Believe, Shine On

Let Apella the Jew believe it.

Believe, Jew

'Satires' bk. 1, no. 5, l. 100

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

Mountain, Littles, Birth

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

Mean, Limits, Virtue

Nothing is achieved without toil.

Toil

The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.

Hours

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Sports, Fortune, Human Life

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

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

Grief, Grieving, Wish

"Ars Poetica" by Horace, v. 102, c. 19 BC.

Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

Men, Should, Standards

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

Fall, Grief, Passion

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

Truth, Moderation, Fortune

Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

In my integrity I'll wrap me up.

Integrity, Wraps

In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

Hard Times, Prosperity, Equanimity

And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. [Lat., Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores.]

Stars, Moon, Light

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