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Horace Quotes - Page 20

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Don't carry logs into the forest.

Don't carry logs into the forest.

Latin, Forests

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

Anniversary, Wedding, Unbroken

I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

Virtue, Wraps

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

Depressing, Mind, Body

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

War, Wine, Hardship

Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

Desire, Naked, Camps

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

Men, Ordinary, Poet

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

Eye, Years, Mind

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

Passion, Men, Tyrants

'Odes' bk. 3, no. 3, l. 1

The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat., Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

Depressing, Yesterday, Mind

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Grief, Disease, Accents

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Mind, Bats, Care

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Punishment, Tyrants, Envy

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Epistles, I. 2. 57, 1922.

Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]

Jam, Satisfaction, Enough

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

Life, Privacy

"Epistles", I. 17. 10 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

Nature, Science, Foolish

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

Happiness, Each Day, Gains

Horace (1927). “The Odes and Epodes”

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

Riches, Firsts, Wealth

To know all things is not permitted.

Knowledge, All Things, Knows

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

Enjoy, Present Day

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

Stars, Science, Sun

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

May, Too Much, Fly Away

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Literature, Increase, Labor

Those that are little, little things suit.

Littles, Suits, Action

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

Practice, Citizens, Firsts

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