Horace quotes - page 5

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. (Horace)
Labor diligently to increase your property. View quote
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It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. View quote
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. View quote
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them. View quote
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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. View quote
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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. View quote
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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. View quote
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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. View quote
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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. View quote
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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. (Horace)
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. View quote
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Punishment follows close on crime. View quote
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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. View quote
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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. View quote
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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow. View quote
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Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes. View quote
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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
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To have good sense, is the first principle and fountain of writing well. View quote
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At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray. View quote
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Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium. (Horace)
What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. View quote
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I am displeased when sometimes even the worthy Homer nods. View quote
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Look round and round the man you recommend, For yours will be the shame should he offend. View quote
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I sing for maidens and boys. View quote
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