| 118 Famous Quotes by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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“All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.”
Opinion Quotes Source: Epistles (II, 2, 58)
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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.]”
Heroes Quotes Source: Carmina (IV, 9, 25)
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“What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
[Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.]”
Love of country Quotes Source: Carmina (II, 16, 19)
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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.]”
Circumstance Quotes 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.]”
Circumstance Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 12, 19)
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“Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
[Lat., Rapiamus, amici,
Occasionem de die.]”
Opportunity Quotes Source: Epodon (XIII, 3)
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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.]”
Ants Quotes Source: Satires (bk. I, I, 33)
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“A eulogist of past times.
[Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]”
Praise Quotes 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.]”
Praise Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 17, 35)
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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.]”
Mountains Quotes Source: Ars Poetica (138)
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“To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]”
Mountains Quotes Source: Odes (bk. III, 4, 52)
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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.]”
Errors Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 50)
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“In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
[Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]”
Bravery Quotes 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.]”
Bravery Quotes Source: Odes (bk. IV, IX, 25)
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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.]”
Prudence Quotes Source: Satires (I, IV, 34)
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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.]”
Providence Quotes Source: Epodi (XIII, 7)
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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.]”
Anger Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 2, 62)
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“He has hay on his horns.
[Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]”
Anger Quotes Source: Satires (I, 4, 34)
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“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one
hundred.”
Anger Quotes Source: Satires (I, 4, 34)
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“Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]”
Teaching Quotes Source: Carmina (IV, 4, 33)
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“The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive
neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
[Lat., Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister
Ire viam qua monstret eques.]”
Teaching Quotes Source: Epistles (bk. I, 2, 64)
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“Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
[Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]”
Wealth Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 10, 47)
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“For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]”
Wealth Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 94)
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“Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed
no more than seaweed.
[Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est.]”
Wealth Quotes Source: Satires (II, 5, 8)
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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.]”
Gold Quotes Source: Ode XVI (bk. III, l. 12), (Francis' translation)
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