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Horace Quotes - Page 3

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Time, Past, Weight Loss

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Being Thankful

Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

Despair

Horace (1983). “The Complete Works of Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)”, Frederick Ungar

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Life, Work, Hardship

"Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire ix, line 59, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

Courage, Stress, Adversity

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Love, Envy, Envied

Better to accept whatever happens.

Accepting, Whatever Happens, Happens

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Funny, Advice, Simple Life

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Thinking, Looks, Lasts

"Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle iv, line 13 - 14, c. 20 BC, 14 BC.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Funny, Giving, Advice

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Ars Poetica, CCCXXXV, 1922.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Inspirational, Teenager, Men

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Anger, Passion, Madness

"Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62, c. 20 BC.

Work at it night and day.

Night

I was what you are, you will be what I am.

Latin

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

Caught, Cunning, Disguise

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Life, Expectations, Inspire

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

Men, Delight, Admire

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

Arms, Study, Virtue

Horace (1770). “The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes”, p.233

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

Wall, Evil, Done

He who is greedy is always in want.

Money, Greed, Investing

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

Mistress, Use, Literature

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Dull, Capture, Reader

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Perfect, Perfect Happiness

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Literature

Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Fall

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