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Horace Quotes - Page 28

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Death is the last limit of all things.

Death is the last limit of all things.

Death, Lasts, Limits

From the egg to the apple.

Latin, Eggs, Apples

Horace (1836). “The works of Horace: translated literally into English prose; for the use of those who are desirous of acquiring or recovering a competent knowledge of the Latin language”, p.29

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]

Men, Heaven, Naked

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

Doe, Different, Ratios

That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

World, Corners, Corners Of The World

The same night awaits us all.

Latin, Night

Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

Wise, Future, Darkness

The glory is for those who deserve.

Latin, Glory, Deserve

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

Heaven, Strive, Difficult

Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

Busy, Inertia, Urges

Luck cannot change birth.

Luck, Birth

It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

Laughing, Age, Gone

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

Years, Wind, Pyramids

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 388-90, Carmina, III. 30. 1, 1922.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

Sky, Reign, Praise

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

Stars, Poet, Strikes

What has not wasting time impaired?

Wasting Time, Not Wasting Time

Horace, James DOUGLAS (M.D.), Samuel Patrick, David WATSON (of Brechin.) (1745). “The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Two Languages Will Admit. Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions. Wherein the Words of the Latin Text are Put in Their Grammatical Order ... with Notes ... The Whole Adapted Tothe Capacities of Youth at School, as Well as of Private Gentlemen. By David Watson ... Revised by a Gentleman Well Skill'd in this Sort of Literature at London [i.e. Samuel Patrick]. The Second Edition. [With a”, p.242

It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

Speak, Difficult, Universal

"Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Line 128, c. 18 BC.

The dispute is still before the judge.

Latin, Judging, Disputes

Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

Character, Lasts, Consistent

It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

Hero, Differences, Oratory

"Ars Poetica" by Horace, CXIV,

Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

Sometimes, Caught

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

Poetry, Matter, Comic

To drink away sorrow.

Sorrow, Drink

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

Wise, Men, Fool

A greater liar than the Parthians.

Liars, Greater

Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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