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Horace Quotes - Page 26

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We are all gathered to the same fold.

We are all gathered to the same fold.

Brotherhood, Folds

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

Life, Cheer, Father

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Advice

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Art, Reading, Mean

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Anger, Feelings, Difficult

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

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Adversity, Too Much, Delight

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Teacher, Teaching, Lessons

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Kings, Real, Greatness

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

Pears, Presses

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

Boys, Play, Mirth

In trying to be concise I become obscure.

Trying, Obscure, Concise

It is grievous to be caught.

Prison, Caught

"Satires". Book I. 2. 134,

You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Playing Games, Drunk, Enough

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

Wall, Guilt, Pale

By the favour of the heavens

Religious, Heaven, Favour

Anger is a momentary madness.

Anger, Madness, Momentary

"The Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62,

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Nature, Pitchforks, Nevertheless

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Life, Past, Men

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Two, Purple, Giving

"Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)". Poem by Horace (line 14), circa 18 BC.

Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

Wine, Care, Vino

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

Hay, Horns, Mischievous

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

Death, Dark, Needs

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

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

Ciphers, Earth, Fruit

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

Wife, Tales, Old Wives Tales

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

Disputes, Court, Grammar

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