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Horace Quotes - Page 32

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Life, Success, Money

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

Country, Rome, Sky

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Writing, Secret, Sound

Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

Hours, Accepting, Gladness

"Horace, the Odes and Epodes: With an English Translation".

A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Gains, Approval, Pleasant

Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

Father, Parent, Caverns

Horace (1901). “Q. Horatii Flacci Odæ, Epodæ, Carmen sæculare”

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

Memories, Men, Recollection

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

Men, Effort, Rewards

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

Running, Needs, May

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

Happy, Enjoy, Present Day

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

Talking, No Trust, Fleeing

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

Wealth, Midst

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

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

Laughter, My Friends

Horace (1938). “The Complete Works of Horace”

Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

Long, Add, Deliberation

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

Home, Men, Nails

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

Woods, Timber, Labor

He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]

Boys, Goal, Suffering

He is praised by some, blamed by others.

Horace, (2016). “The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace”, p.196, Princeton University Press

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

His Love, Wealth, Grows

It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

Vases, Pot

An undertaking beset with danger.

Danger, Undertakings

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

Rome

Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.

Lessons, Enjoy, Forefathers

Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

Dark, Night, Issues

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