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Horace Quotes - Page 4

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Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

Retirement, Struggle, Limits

"Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, Satire I, transl. by N. Rudd, v. 92-94, 2005.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Avert

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

Hate, I Hate, Irreverent

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

Humanity, Tendencies, Forbidden

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

Life, Evil, Serenity

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Justice, Literature, Fidelity

Horace, James DOUGLAS (M.D.), Samuel Patrick, David WATSON (of Brechin.) (1745). “The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Two Languages Will Admit. Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions. Wherein the Words of the Latin Text are Put in Their Grammatical Order ... with Notes ... The Whole Adapted Tothe Capacities of Youth at School, as Well as of Private Gentlemen. By David Watson ... Revised by a Gentleman Well Skill'd in this Sort of Literature at London [i.e. Samuel Patrick]. The Second Edition. [With a”, p.104

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Passion, Wine, Secret

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

Life, Littles, Slave

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

Latin, Blind, Obedience

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Trust, Eye, Mind

Nothing is swifter than rumor.

Rumor

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

Fly Away, Dregs, Has Beens

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

Kings, Bliss, Court

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

Bears, Shoulders, Wells

"The poems of Horace".

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

Believe, Independence, Masters

I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

Distance, Profane

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Life, World, Birth

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]

Future, Stores, Cease

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

Attitude, Soul, Relax

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

Opposites, Trying, Faults

Nature is harmony in discord.

Nature, Harmony, Discord

Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

Flames, Acquire, Ifs

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

Mad, Insanity, Majority

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, Satires, II. 120, 1922.

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

Lowest, Highest

"Carmina" by Horace, III. 1. 14,

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