| 118 Famous Quotes by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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“The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.”
Misers Quotes Source: Ars Poetica (170)
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“They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy
idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and
carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
[Lat., Coelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.
Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque
Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est.]”
Traveling Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 11, 27)
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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.]”
Greatness Quotes Source: Epistles (II, 1, 13)
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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.]”
Fear Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 1, 74)
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“Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
[Lat., Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peti.]”
Desire Quotes Source: Carmina (bk. III, 16, 22)
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“For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?
[Lat., Cui flavam religas comam
Simplex munditiis?]”
Hair Quotes Source: Carmina (I, 5, 4), (Milton's translation)
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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.]”
Fire Quotes 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.]”
Footsteps Quotes Source: Epistles (bk. 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.]”
Ancestry Quotes Source: Carmina (bk. IV, 4)
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“Every man cannot go to Corinthum.
[Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]”
Cities Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 17, 36)
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“You will swim without cork (without help).
[Lat., Nabis sine cortice.]”
Help Quotes Source: Satires (bk. I, 4, 120)
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“Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]”
Royalty Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 2, 14)
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“A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]”
Nobility Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 243)
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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.]”
Satisfaction Quotes Source: Carmina (bk. III, 16, 42)
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“If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he
would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
[Lat., Sed tacitus pasci si posset corvus, haberet
Plus dapis, et rixae multo minus invidiaeque.]”
Satisfaction Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 17, 50)
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“Now, that's enough.
[Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]”
Satisfaction Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 5, 12)
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“It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
[Lat., Intererit multum Davusne loquatur an heros.]”
Oratory Quotes Source: Ars Poetica (CXIV)
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“I strike the stars with by sublime head.
[Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]”
Ambition Quotes 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.]”
Ambition Quotes Source: Carmina (I, 3, 37)
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“No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]”
Ambition Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 1, 74)
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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.]”
Pleasure Quotes 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.]”
Pleasure Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 10, 8)
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“Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
[Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]”
Pleasure Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 2, 55)
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“Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
[Lat., Aequa lege necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos.]”
Necessity Quotes Source: Carmina (III, 1, 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.]”
Rome Quotes Source: Carmina (III, 29, 11)
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