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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.
Topic: Acting
Source: Of the Art of Poetry
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What advice you give, be short.
[Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]
Topic: Advice
Source: Ars Poetica (CCCXXXV)
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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of
mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers,
free from all anxieties of gain.
[Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,
Ut prisca gens mortalium,
Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,
Solutus omni faenore.]
Topic: Agriculture
Source: Epodon (bk. II, 1)
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I strike the stars with by sublime head.
[Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
Topic: Ambition
Source: Carmina (bk. I, 1)
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm
heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est:
Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]
Topic: Ambition
Source: Carmina (I, 3, 37)
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No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
Topic: Ambition
Source: Epistles (I, 1, 74)
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The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in
horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage
eagles produce a peaceful dove.
[Lat., Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis;
Est in juvenis, est in equibus patrum
Virtus; nee imbellem feroces
Progenerant aquilae columbam.]
Topic: Ancestry
Source: Carmina (bk. IV, 4)
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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will
control you.
[Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret
imperat.]
Topic: Anger
Source: Epistles (I, 2, 62)
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He has hay on his horns.
[Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
Topic: Anger
Source: Satires (I, 4, 34)
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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one
hundred.
Topic: Anger
Source: Satires (I, 4, 34)
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For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags
with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she
is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
[Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris
Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo
Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]
Topic: Ants
Source: Satires (bk. I, I, 33)
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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.]
Topic: Art
Source: Ars Poetica (9)
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Drawing is the true test of art.
Topic: Art
Source: Ars Poetica (9)
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What's well begun, is half done.
[Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]
Topic: Beginnings
Source: Epistles (I, 2, 40)
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In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
[Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]
Topic: Bravery
Source: Ars Poetica
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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and
unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a
divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
[Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles
Urguentur ignotique sacro.]
Topic: Bravery
Source: Odes (bk. IV, IX, 25)
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Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition).
[Lat., Dens Theonia.]
Topic: Calumny
Source: Epistles (bk. I, 18, 82)
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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
Topic: Calumny
Source: Epistles (bk. I, 18, 82)
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself
to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Epistles (I, 1, 191)
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What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could
effect.
[Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.]
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Epistles (I, 12, 19)
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Every man cannot go to Corinthum.
[Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]
Topic: Cities
Source: Epistles (I, 17, 36)
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Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never
turn pale with guilt.
[Lat., Hic murus aeneus esto,
Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.]
Topic: Conscience
Source: Epistles (I, 1, 60)
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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from
heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.]
Topic: Content
Source: Carmina (III, 16, 21)
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Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to
whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his
wants.
[Lat., Multa petentibus
Desunt multa; bene est cui deus obtulit
Parca quod satis est manu.]
Topic: Content
Source: Carmina (III, 16, 42)
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Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy
my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
[Lat., Sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus et mihi vivam
Quod superest aevi--si quid superesse volunt di.]
Topic: Content
Source: Epistles (I, 18, 107)
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The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his
settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow
citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
[Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni,
Mente quatit solida.]
Topic: Courage
Source: Carmina (III, 3, 1)
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One man with courage makes a majority.
Topic: Courage
Source: Carmina (III, 3, 1)
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It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
Topic: Crime
Source: Satires (bk. I, 2, 134)
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A crafty knave needs no broker.
Topic: Crime
Source: Satires (bk. I, 2, 134)
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Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
[Lat., Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peti.]
Topic: Desire
Source: Carmina (bk. III, 16, 22)
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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
[Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.]
Topic: Despair
Source: Carmina (I, 7, 27)
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Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of
corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
[Lat., Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum.
Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.]
Topic: Eating
Source: Satires (I, 1, 45)
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The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour,
but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
Topic: Eating
Source: Satires (II, 2)
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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
Topic: Eating
Source: Satires (II, 2, 38)
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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.]
Topic: Envy
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?]
Topic: Envy
Source: Satires (I, 4, 91)
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One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but
in different directions.
[Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique
Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]
Topic: Errors
Source: Satires (II, 3, 50)
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As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges
them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of
others will often deter tender minds from vice.
[Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros
Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit;
Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe
Absterrent vitiis.]
Topic: Example
Source: Satires (I, 4, 126)
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I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy
den, and none returning.
[Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent
Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]
Topic: Fear
Source: Epistles (I, 1, 74)
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Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on
fire.
[Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.]
Topic: Fire
Source: Epistles (I, 18, 84)
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The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none
going back again.
[Lat., Vestigia terrent
Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.]
Topic: Footsteps
Source: Epistles (bk. I, 1, 74)
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It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to
grant it to others.
[Lat., Aequum est
Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus.]
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: Satires (I, 3, 74)
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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a
gift whatever the day brings forth.
[Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et
Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro
Appone.]
Topic: Future
Source: Carmina (I, 9, 13)
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A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]
Topic: Future
Source: Carmina (III, 29, 29)
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Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
[Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]
Topic: Gifts
Source: Ars Poetica (337)
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at
the wheels of her glittering car.
[Lat., Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru
Non minus ignotos generosis.]
Topic: Glory
Source: Satires (I, 6, 23)
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Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls to break.
[Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites
Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius
Ictu fulmineo.]
Topic: Gold
Source: Ode XVI (bk. III, l. 12), (Francis' translation)
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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
[Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes
Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.]
Topic: Greatness
Source: Epistles (II, 1, 13)
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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?]
Topic: Grief
Source: Carmina (I, 24, 1)
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
[Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.]
Topic: Guests
Source: Epistles (I, 1, 15)
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