| 118 Famous Quotes by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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“The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she
enthrones him in the heavens.
[Lat., Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori;
Coelo Musa beat.]”
Immortality Quotes Source: Carmina (IV, 8, 28)
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“And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop
To the low mimic follies of a farce,
As a grave matron would to dance with girls.”
Acting Quotes Source: Of the Art of Poetry
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“He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is
infected with the same disease.
[Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod
Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]”
Insanity Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 120)
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“Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
[Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]”
Insanity Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 158)
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“Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
[Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]”
Insanity Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 326)
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“I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]”
Insanity Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 81)
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“The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than
envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
[Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis;
Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni
Majus tormentus.]”
Envy Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 2, 57)
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“If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be
regarded as envious and ill-natured?
[Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus
Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax
videar?]”
Envy Quotes Source: Satires (I, 4, 91)
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“The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the
kite the covered hook.
[Lat., Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque
Suspectos laqueos, et opertum milvius hamum.]”
Suspicion Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 16, 50)
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“Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and
then is pleasant.
[Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
Dulce est desipere in loco.]”
Nonsense Quotes Source: Carmina (IV, 12, 27)
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“Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
[Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae
Tempora di superi?]”
Uncertainty Quotes Source: Carmina (IV, 7, 17)
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“He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]”
Imagination Quotes Source: Ars Poetica (XXX)
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“Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the
arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.”
Imagination Quotes Source: Ars Poetica (XXX)
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“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
[Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et
n'a pas de pieds.]”
Imagination Quotes Source: Ars Poetica (XXX)
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“The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
[Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.]”
Sorrow Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 18, 89)
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“What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so
beloved?
[Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus
Tam cari capitis?]”
Grief Quotes Source: Carmina (I, 24, 1)
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“Bolt from the blue.”
Sky Quotes Source: Ode (I, 34)
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“What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it
ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
[Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;
Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]”
Intemperance Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 5, 16)
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