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For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?
[Lat., Cui flavam religas comam
Simplex munditiis?]
Topic: Hair
Source: Carmina (I, 5, 4), (Milton's translation)
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You will swim without cork (without help).
[Lat., Nabis sine cortice.]
Topic: Help
Source: Satires (bk. I, 4, 120)
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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned,
and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their
praises.
[Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles
Urgentur, ignotique longa
Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.]
Topic: Heroes
Source: Carmina (IV, 9, 25)
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Humble things become the humble.
[Lat., Parvum parva decent.]
Topic: Humility
Source: Epistles (I, 7, 44)
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Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
Topic: Idleness
Source: Epistles (bk. I, XI, 28)
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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
[Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.]
Topic: Idleness
Source: Satires (II, 3, 14)
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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Topic: Imagination
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.
Topic: Imagination
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.]
Topic: Imagination
Source: Ars Poetica (XXX)
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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely
into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with
truth.
[Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo
Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]
Topic: Imitation
Source: Ars Poetica (CCCXVII)
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He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on
artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his
name to a glassy sea.
[Lat., Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari,
Iule ceratis ope Daedalea
Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus
Nomina ponto.]
Topic: Imitation
Source: Carmina (IV, 2, 1)
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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.]
Topic: Immortality
Source: Carmina (IV, 8, 28)
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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.]
Topic: Insanity
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.]
Topic: Insanity
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.]
Topic: Insanity
Source: Satires (II, 3, 326)
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I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
Topic: Insanity
Source: Satires (II, 3, 81)
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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.]
Topic: Intemperance
Source: Epistles (I, 5, 16)
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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
[Lat., Male verum examinat omnis
Corruptus judex.]
Topic: Judges
Source: Satires (II, 2, 8)
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Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours.
[Lat., Demens
Judicio vulgi, sanus fortasse tuo.]
Topic: Judgment
Source: Satires (bk. I, 6, 97)
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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that
which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
[Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]
Topic: Laughter
Source: Epistles (bk. II, 1, 262)
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What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
[Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.]
Topic: Love of Country
Source: Carmina (II, 16, 19)
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Splendidly mendacious.
[Lat., Splendide mendax.]
Topic: Lying
Source: Carmina (III, 11, 35)
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The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
Topic: Misers
Source: Ars Poetica (170)
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What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister
of justice, and undisguised truth?
[Lat., Cui pudor et justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque
veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?]
Topic: Modesty
Source: Carmina (I, 24, 6)
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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier
than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the
corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no,
not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall
not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.
[Lat., Exegi monumentum aera perennius
Regalique situ pyramidum altius,
Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens
Possit diruere aut innumerabilis
Annorum series et fuga temporum.
Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei
Vitabit Libitinam.]
Topic: Monuments
Source: Carmina (III, 30, 1)
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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the
life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
[Lat., Incisa notis marmora publicis,
Per quae spiritus et vita redit bonis
Post mortem ducibus.]
Topic: Monuments
Source: Carmina (IV, 8)
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What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The
mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]
Topic: Mountains
Source: Ars Poetica (138)
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To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
Topic: Mountains
Source: Odes (bk. III, 4, 52)
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Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
[Lat., Aequa lege necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos.]
Topic: Necessity
Source: Carmina (III, 1, 14)
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A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
Topic: Nobility
Source: Satires (II, 3, 243)
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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.]
Topic: Nonsense
Source: Carmina (IV, 12, 27)
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All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
Topic: Opinion
Source: Epistles (II, 2, 58)
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Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
[Lat., Rapiamus, amici,
Occasionem de die.]
Topic: Opportunity
Source: Epodon (XIII, 3)
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It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
[Lat., Intererit multum Davusne loquatur an heros.]
Topic: Oratory
Source: Ars Poetica (CXIV)
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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Topic: Painting
Source: Ars Poetica (XXX)
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It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through
patience.
[Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia
Quicquid corrigere est nefas.]
Topic: Patience
Source: Carmina (I, 24, 19)
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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to
the true.
[Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris.]
Topic: Pleasure
Source: Ars Poetica (338)
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I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you
by your praises extol to the skies.
[Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]
Topic: Pleasure
Source: Epistles (I, 10, 8)
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Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
[Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]
Topic: Pleasure
Source: Epistles (I, 2, 55)
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Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of
those battles.
[Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum
Rara juventus.]
Topic: Posterity
Source: Odes (bk. I, 2, 23)
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A eulogist of past times.
[Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]
Topic: Praise
Source: Ars Poetica (173)
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
[Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]
Topic: Praise
Source: Epistles (I, 17, 35)
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Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition).
[Lat., Dens Theonia.]
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Epistles (bk. I, 18, 82)
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Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things
to their proper places.
[Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna
Reducet in sedem vice.]
Topic: Providence
Source: Epodi (XIII, 7)
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He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has
hay on his horns, showing he is dangerous.)
[Lat., Faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge.]
Topic: Prudence
Source: Satires (I, IV, 34)
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Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
Topic: Punishment
Source: Carmina (IV, 5, 24)
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Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better
than acrimony.
[Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat
res.]
Topic: Ridicule
Source: Satires (bk. I, 10, 14)
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Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
[Lat., Omitte mirari beatae
Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.]
Topic: Rome
Source: Carmina (III, 29, 11)
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Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]
Topic: Royalty
Source: Epistles (I, 2, 14)
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Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to
whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
[Lat., Multa petentibus
Desunt multa.
Bene est, cui Deus obtulit
Parca, quod satis est manu.]
Topic: Satisfaction
Source: Carmina (bk. III, 16, 42)
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