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Horace Quotes - Page 7

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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.

Temper, Subjection

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

Wisdom, Found, Folly

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

Earth, Graves, Beggar

Who's started has half finished.

Half, Finished

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Hours, Pleasure, Enjoy

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

Mind, Appearance, Animus

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Money, Mean, Stills

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

Latin, Voice, Together

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

Men, Shoes, Choices

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.370, Delphi Classics

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

Wall, Literature, Innocence

"Imitations of Horace: With An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and the Epilogue to the Satires".

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

Illustration, Settling, Difficulty

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

Latin, Appearance, Deceived

To teach is to delight.

Delight, Teach

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

Courage, Fool, Shame

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

Ignorance, Littles

We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

Dust, Shadow

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Congratulations, Men, Neighbor

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

Wine, Light, Soul

No man is born without faults.

Men, Faults, Born

Horace, William SMART (M.A.) (1830). “Horace literally translated, for the use of students. By William Smart, etc. [In prose.]”, p.131

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

Patience, Can Not, Lighters

"Carmina", I. 24. 19 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 583-584), 1922.

False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

Hypocrite, Praise, Vicious

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Life, Inspire, Age

"Satires" by Horace, Book I, satire i, line 117, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Courage, Race, Law

"Carmina". I. 3. 25,

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

Friends, Men, Intimate

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