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Horace Quotes - Page 31

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The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

Horse, Eagles, Brave

A crafty knave needs no broker.

Needs, Knaves, Crime

Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

Latin, Savages, Conqueror

The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

Caring, Toil, Fowl

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

Art, Poet, Equal

"Ars Poetica" (18 BC), 9, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 43-45, 1922.

Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

Despair, Guidance

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 189-90, Carmina, I, 7, 27, 1922.

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

Sauce, Eating, Pleasure

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

Fate, Hands, Names

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

Fear, Footprint, Dens

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Epistles, I. 1. 74, 1922.

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

Men, Car, Wheels

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 313-14, Satires, I. 6. 23, 1922.

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

Pleasure, Source

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Ars Poetica, 338, 1922.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

Heaven, Doe, Praise

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

Boys, Men, Anxiety

Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Giving, Liberty, Poet

Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

Latin, Example, Doe

Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

Latin, Welcome, Hours

The grammarians are arguing.

Latin, Arguing

I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

Appreciation, Latin, Bronze

Odes bk. 3, no. 30, l. 1

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

Latin, Yoke, Tribes

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

Latin, Mad, Insane

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

Latin, Matter, Serious

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

Latin, Wicked, Laziness

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Stupid, Water, Literature

Believe it, future generations.

Believe, Generations, Future Generation

I shall not completely die.

Latin, Dies

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