Horace quotes - page 9

On day is pressed on by another. (Horace)
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. View quote
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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon, but all are weighed down in unending night, unwept and unknown, because they lacked a sacred bard. View quote
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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. View quote
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Some faults may claim forgiveness. View quote
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None knows the reason why this curse Was sent on him, this love of making verse. View quote
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If my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if I live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if I am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... As it is now, he deserves from me unstinting gratitude and praise. I could never be ashamed of such a father, nor do I feel any need, as many people do, to apologize for being a freedman's son. View quote
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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine." View quote
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Death takes the mean man with the proud; The fatal urn has room for all. View quote
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O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers, Why make such game of this poor life of ours? View quote
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Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill The hearer's soul, and move it at its will. (Horace)
For nature forms our spirits to receive Each bent that outward circumstance can give: She kindles pleasure, bids resentment glow, Or bows the soul to earth in hopeless woe. View quote
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He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more. View quote
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For why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if anything gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year? View quote
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds may take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. View quote
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As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more. View quote
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The Muse gave the Greeks their native character, and allowed them to speak in noble tones, they who desired nothing but praise. View quote
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Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may; With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day. View quote
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As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd. View quote
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O fairer daughter of a fair mother! View quote
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So live, my boys, as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. (Horace)
And what he fears he cannot make attractive with his touch he abandons. View quote
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Art is long, life is short. View quote
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This to the right, that to the left hand strays, And all are wrong, but wrong in different ways. View quote
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For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown. View quote
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