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Horace Quotes - Page 25

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The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]

The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]

Protector

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

Death, Suicide, Cutting

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Brass, Lasting, Monument

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.149, Delphi Classics

I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

Cutting, Iron, Vices

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Long, Giving, Water

'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 19, l. 1

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

Fate, Gains, Granted

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

Country, Sweet, Glorious

Horace (1893). “The Works of Horace”

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

Curiosity, Talkers, Inquisitive

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

Passion, Want, Poet

Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]

Doe, Apollo, Bows

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

Wise, Future, Darkness

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 304-06, Carmina, III. 29. 29, 1922.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

Men, Wife, Credit

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

Games, Tasks, Shifting

What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

Mountain, Ridiculous, Born

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

War, Wine, Want

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.

Blessed, Grateful, Hands

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Spoken Word, Written Word, Recalls

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Work, Obscure, Recreation

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Life, Everyday, Asking

What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

Art, Wine, Glasses

Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

Life, Past, Guests

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Running, Opposites, Faults

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Light, Shining, Cover Ups

"Epistles". Book by Horace, I. 6. 24, 20 BC.

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

Hair, Years, Tears

Horace (1938). “The Complete Works of Horace”

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

Grief, Joy, Morrow

Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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