Horace Quotes

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Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

Horace
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

Horace
You may turn nature out of doors with violence, but she will still return.

Horace
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

Horace
As they put it in Greek, we simply don't COUNT. We consume.

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Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue.
In Latin: Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.

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There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

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Poets, the first instructors of mankind,
Brought all things to the proper native use.

Horace
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

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Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

Horace