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Horace Quotes - Page 34

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

Hero, Night, Agamemnon

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Obscure, Strive, Miscellaneous

'Ars Poetica' l. 25

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

Son, Giving, Age

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

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

Sea, Sky, Soul

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Mean, Envy, Golden

"Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode x, line 5, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

Fear, War, Atheism

"The Works of Horace".

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Death, Dying, Graves

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

Becoming, Wealth, Caution

Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.

Sweet, Love Making, Despise

No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

Latin

He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .

Sweet, Latin

Anger is a short madness.

Wisdom, Anger, Madness

'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 62

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

Arrows, Guilt, Needs

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Father, Sunshine, Clouds

"Odes". Book by Horace, Book III, ode xxix, line 41, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

Wings, Peaceful, Black

We get blows and return them.

Blow, Return

Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

Sleep, Wine, Leisure

I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer. [Lat., Et idem Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

Sleep, Long, Bonus

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

Book, Fate, Live For Today

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

Grief, Men, Limits

"Carmina" by Horace, I. 24. 1,

Busy idleness urges us on.

Busy, Urges, Idleness

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 384-85, Epistles, Book I, XI. 28, 1922.

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

People, Royalty, Monarchs

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

Country, Race, Towns

There are faults we would fain pardon.

Faults, Pardon

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