Horace quotes - page 7

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]. (Horace)
Poetry is like painting one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. View quote
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He is always a slave who cannot live on little. View quote
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You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot. View quote
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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person. View quote
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Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. View quote
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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts. View quote
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Faults are soon copied. View quote
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Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true. View quote
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Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. View quote
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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. (Horace)
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place. View quote
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There is moderation in everything. View quote
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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little. View quote
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There is nothing assured to mortals. View quote
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. View quote
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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness. View quote
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. View quote
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The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. View quote
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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living. View quote
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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent. (Horace)
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you. View quote
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Believe that each day that shines on you is your last. View quote
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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. View quote
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Those that are little, little things suit. View quote
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