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Horace Quotes - Page 29

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A man perfect to the finger tips.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

Men, Perfect, Fingers

Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

Made, Eloquent, Bowls

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

Treasure, May, Contemplating

Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

Wine, Wrath, Secret

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Sloth, Sirens, Laziness

"Satires". II. 3. 14,

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

Men, Mediocrity, Poet

Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

Heaven, Path, Virtue

Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

Opportunity

"Epodon". XIII. 3,

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

Fate, Destiny, Men

"Odes and Epodes".

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Eye, Years, Literature

Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

Play, Fierce, Strife

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

Poetry, Substance, Trifles

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

Brother, Noble, Pairs

The question is yet before the court.

Court

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Justice, Modesty, Found

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 520-21, Carmina, I. 24. 6, 1922.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

Country, Sweet, Patriotic

Horace (1908). “Horace: Quintus Horatius Flaccus ... the Roman Poet Presented to Modern Readers”

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Gossip, Ears, Inquisitive

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

Money, Firsts, Wealth

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

Speech, Obscure, Concise

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

Sports, Broken, Shame

All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

Money, Powerful, Giving

Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]

Money, Proud, Birth

To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]

Olympus

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

Cheerful, Melancholy, Dislike

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

Mad, Insanity, Spares

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