Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
[Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse expetit.]
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
QUINTUS ENNIUS O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - ...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
QUINTUS ENNIUS He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
QUINTUS ENNIUS They hate whom they fear.
QUINTUS ENNIUS He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
QUINTUS ENNIUS No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
QUINTUS ENNIUS No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.
QUINTUS ENNIUS One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding
an engagement, Fabius exhausted the...
QUINTUS ENNIUS May his body rest free from evil.
[Lat., Corpus requiescat a malis.]
QUINTUS ENNIUS Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fr...
QUINTUS ENNIUS He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one
who has lighted another's lamp fro...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and f...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUS Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur'
[A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]
QUINTUS ENNIUS They hate whom they fear
QUINTUS ENNIUS He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within
QUINTUS ENNIUS Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed
QUINTUS ENNIUS No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars
QUINTUS ENNIUS To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen
QUINTUS ENNIUS He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
QUINTUS ENNIUS A little moralizing's good - a little: I like a taste, but not a bath of it
QUINTUS ENNIUS O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - ...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fr...
QUINTUS ENNIUS The idle mind knows not what it wants.
ENNIUS The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
[Lat., Efficacior omni arte immine...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sed...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
[Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subes...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an
unchangeable law through the eternal ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
[Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum inc...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
[Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mor...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one
cautious enough to resist the effects of ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting;
gratitude for benefits eternal.
[Lat.,...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS But few prize honour more than money.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntu...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS During war, the laws are silent.
QUINTUS TULLIUS CICERO Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
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Fear makes men believe the worst.
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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS TERTULLIANUS Out of the frying pan into the fire.
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS TERTULLIANUS To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unf...
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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites
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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS ![]()
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she
enthrones him in the heavens.
[La...
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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.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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 ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm
heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat.,...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of
mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
A crafty knave needs no broker.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Every man cannot go to Corinthum.
[Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and
unknown, are lost in the distant night, ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The
mountains are in labor; a ridiculous m...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
A eulogist of past times.
[Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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 ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy
my remaining days, if Heaven grant...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister
of justice, and undisguised truth?
...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
[Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
What's well begun, is half done.
[Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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...
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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...
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Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
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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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...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of
corn, not for that reason will your...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on
artificial wings fastened on with wa...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
[Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the
arms of a chambermaid as of a duch...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Splendidly mendacious.
[Lat., Splendide mendax.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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...
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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...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent?
[Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS 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...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and
then is pleasant.
[Lat., Misce ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on
fire.
[Lat., Tua res agitur, pari...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none
going back again.
[Lat., Vestigia t...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
[Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemqu...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the
kite the covered hook.
[Lat., C...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
[Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis
...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Plant no other tree before the vine.
[Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy
idleness possesses us: we seek a...
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...
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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...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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 ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) ![]()
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...
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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.]
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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) They converse as those who know that God hears.
[Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire...
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS TERTULLIAN Anger is a short madness.
QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS HORACE I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am th...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not,
but I feel that I do and I am tor...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?
[Lat., Quid datur a divis felici...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) A day without laughter is a day wasted.
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our
own backs.
[Lat., Suus quoque attr...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not
laughed.
[Fr., La plus perdue d...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
[Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make ter...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted
from us the gracious favor of the...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) When a nation has just emerged from the throes of a great civil warfare, where section was arrayed a...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, an...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pre...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to ...
LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ... 
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I... 
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt... 
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O... 
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace. 
Fear makes men believe the worst. 
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites 
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she
enthrones him in the heavens.
[La... 
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
[Lat., Rapiamus, amici,
Occa... 
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive
neck, whichever way the rider indic... 