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Horace Quotes - Page 8

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Favors, Too Much, Fool

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Madness, Momentary

"Epistularum liber primus (First Book of Letters)". Book by Horace (Epistle 2, line 62), 20 BC.

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

Thinking, Sorrow, Dawn

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Men, Tyrants, Citizens

"Carmina (Odes)". Book by Jorace (Book III, Ode III, line 1), 23 BC.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Fate, Add, Each Day

Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

House, Forgetful, Tombs

Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

Lying

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Greatness, Men, Brightness

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, Epistles, II. 1. 13, 1922.

Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

Moon, New Moon, Dies

Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

Advise

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

Use, Gains, Misers

"Ars Poetica" by Horace, 170,

Half is done when the beginning is done.

Latin, Done, Half

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

Vices, Fleeing, Virtue

Humble things become the humble.

Humble, Humility

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 380-81, Epistles, I, 7, 44, 1922.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Death, Kings, Men

Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

Wise, Military, Venture

Horace (1878). “Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica”

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

Lying, Two, Opposites

Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

One cannot know everything.

Knowledge, Knows

"Carmina", IV. 4 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Art, Liars, Lying

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

Parent, Age, Doe

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Mountain, Lightning, Strikes

Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Change, Nice, Years

Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

Doors, Return, Human Nature

A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

Blood, Skins, Leeches

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