Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) quote: "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.]"

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [La...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination ...
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Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici, Occa...
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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indic...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]
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Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et ...
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Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pec...
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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he...
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For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and ...
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The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence ...
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No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat.,...
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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the...
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A crafty knave needs no broker.
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Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mih...
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What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit ...
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Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium Nudus castra peti.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.]
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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, ...
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What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous m...
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A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]
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What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fug...
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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because ...
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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...
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Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand w...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of th...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

One man with courage makes a majority.
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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyra...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]
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What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? ...
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I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]
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What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]
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For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness? [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam Simple...
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Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]
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Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful ...
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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [Lat., Male verum examinat omnis Corr...
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It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed le...
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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce ...
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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brev...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat.,...
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He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dan...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus...
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Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas Sortitur ...
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For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches...
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Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant h...
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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 ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
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If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less qua...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natur...
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Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your...
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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit...
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Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours. [Lat., Demens Judicio vulgi, sanus fo...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby t...
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He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wa...
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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.]
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Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
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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 duch...
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Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]
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Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acr...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Bolt from the blue.
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And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matr...
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Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae F...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Calig...
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultim...
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Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugn...
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Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
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I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of th...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence ...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus...
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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. [Lat., Intererit multum Davusne loquat...
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All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce ...
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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
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Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unar...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

You will swim without cork (without help). [Lat., Nabis sine cortice.]
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. [Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
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Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, pari...
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The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia t...
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The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemqu...
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. [Lat., C...
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Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?] ...
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You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat....
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Drawing is the true test of art.
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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis ...
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Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorro...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum es...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio s...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrant...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, in...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for...
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Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi....
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I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat.,...
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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered ...
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Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., ...
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In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna. [Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for thems...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

It is grievous to be caught. [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. [Lat., Hi...
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Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolo...
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I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skie...
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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptati...
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He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

Anger is a short madness.
QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS HORACE

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can ret...
HORACE

Don't think, just do.
HORACE

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
HORACE

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Wh...
HORACE

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make m...
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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by differ...
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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and do...
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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as ga...
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with th...
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Labor diligently to increase your property.
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Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who...
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