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Horace
Roman
Poet
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Death
#World
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Beginning
#Deed
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Words
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Living
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Genius
#Prosperity
#Adversity
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Hate
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#First
#Writing
#Sense
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Time
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
I teach that all men are mad.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Men
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Man
#Fortune
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Now
#Will
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#First
#Grief
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Exercise
#Effort
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Country
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Fool
#Fortune
#Favors
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Justice
#Sister
#Fidelity
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Time
#Death
#Law
Every old poem is sacred.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Old
Don't think, just do.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Mind
#Body
#Yesterday
#Excess
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#May
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Day
#Future
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Will
#Open
Anger is a short madness.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Anger
#Madness
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Approval
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Statistics
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Safety
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#World
#Man
#Mind
#Happiness
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#May
#Nature
#Running
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Words
#Will
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Books
#Wisdom
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Eye
#Soul
#Cure
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Man
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Fools
#Faults
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
Whatever advice you give, be short.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Advice
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Fire
#Concern
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Gay
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Education
#Knowledge
#Injustice
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Life
#Mind
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Day
#Trust
#Tomorrow
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Eye
#Impression
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Mind
#Adversity
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Crime
#Disgrace
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
We are free to yield to truth.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Truth
#Yield
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Will
#Fathers
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Fear
#Man
#Friend
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Time
#Now
#Will
#Light
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Will
#Friends
#Fault
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Power
#Fancy
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Mind
#Pen
#Tongue
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Will
#Anger
#Temper
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Man
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Right
#Life
#Fools
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Poverty
#Envy
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Life
#World
#Content
#Guest
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Effect
#Circumstances
#Adversity
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Word
#Flies
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Word
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Feet
#Fortune
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Right
#Purpose
#Wrong
#Pride
#Mankind
#Vices
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Words
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Genius
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Heart
#Change
#Fortune
#Adversity
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Mind
Make a good use of the present.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Present
O imitators, you slavish herd!
Horace,
Roman
Poet
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Poets
#Profit
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Death
#Poor
#Kings
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Death
#Man
#Poor
#Kings
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Right
#Error
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Word
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Darkness
#Road
#Travel
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Nothing
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Pleasure
#Water
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Poems
#Water
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Will
#Mountains
#Silly
#Mouse
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Words
#Men
#Anger
#Lawyers
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Right
#Silly
#Foolishness
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Life
#Expectation
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Life
#Work
#Nothing
#Hard work
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Eye
#Public
#Years
#Literary
Leave the rest to the gods.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Rest
#Gods
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Money
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Art
#Nothing
#Truth
#Achievement
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#People
#Thinking
#Quick
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Act
#Water
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Gain
#Fortune
#Tomorrow
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Success
#Man
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Vice
#Disgrace
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Life
#Teaching
#Experience
#Name
#Suffering
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Will
#Passion
Labor diligently to increase your property.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Labor
#Property
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Life
#Present
#Courage
#Blood
#Adversity
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Man
#Parents
#Merit
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Wounds
#Fools
#Shame
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Struggle
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Horace,
Roman
Poet
#Business
#Fire