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Horace Quotes - Page 35

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Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Rome, Noise, Wealth

"Carmina", III. 29. 11, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 677, 1922.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

Horse, Teaching, Necks

"Epistles", Book I. 2. 64, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 779-80, 1922.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

Wrinkles, Age, Encroachment

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

Nuts, Olives, Hard

Horace (1902). “The poems of Horace”

Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.

Friendly, Helping, One Thing

I want to live, and die with you.

Latin, Want, Dies

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

Wisdom, Prayer, Spring

Most virtue lies between two vices.

Lying, Two, Vices

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

Girl, Tragedy, Acting

There are as many preferences as there are men.

Men, Preference

Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

Hope, Reaching

By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

Wine, Care, Flight

The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.

Kings, Children, Earth

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

Art, Secret, Mind

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Statistics, Born, Resources

'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 27

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Grove

Epistles bk. 2, no. 2, l. 45

There is measure in all things.

All Things

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Succeed, Sat, Stills

"Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle xvii, line 37, c. 20 BC, 14 BC.

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

Hate, Sin, Virtue

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

Retirement, Horse, Laughing

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

Loyalty, Storm, Shelter

"The Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle i, line 14,

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

Self, Culture, Virtue

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Men, Years, Mortality

Horace (1835). “Horace: The Epistles, book I-II. The Art of poetry. Appendix, containing translations of various odes, &c”, p.185

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

Memories, Lessons, May

Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

Drinking, Feet, Earth

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