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Horace Quotes - Page 5

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Thinking, Literature, May

A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.

Dresses, Cups, Honestly

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Inspirational, Discipline, Levels

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

Gold, Desire, Cups

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Death, Time, Memories

Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

Kings, Play, People

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

Yield, Sloth, Laziness

Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

Lying, Talent, Dormant

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

Care, Wealth, Increase

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Men, Degrees, Lasts

"Epistles". I. 17. 35,

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Inspirational, Life, Latin

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

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Literature, Crime, Disgrace

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Motivation, Rain, Fate

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

Mind, Vices, Example

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Errors, Society, Politics

Don't long for the unripe grape.

Long, Grapes

If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

Looks, May, Tomorrow

There is moderation in everything.

Philosophical, Moderation

Satires bk. 1, no. 1, l. 106

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

Teaching, Mind, Vim

Be smart, drink your wine.

Smart, Wine, Simple

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

Latin, Play, Fool

"The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory".

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

Pain, Doe, Pleasure

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

Break Through, Gold, Stones

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

Vices, Virtue, Avoiding

He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

Change, Despise

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