Horace - Time Quotes

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Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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My fame will grow,
ever renewed in time to come, as long as
the priest climbs the Capitol with the silent Virgin.

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Tiresome, complaining, a praiser of past times, when he was a boy, a castigator and censor of the young generation.

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Now is the time for the lovely laugh from the secret corner
giving away the girl in her hiding-place,
and for the token snatched from her arm
or finger feebly resisting.

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He has gained every point who has mixed profit with pleasure, by delighting the reader at the same time as instructing him.

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At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.

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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

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What do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents' age (worse than our grandparents') has produced us, more worthless still, who will soon give rise to a yet more vicious generation.

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Gloriously perjured, a maiden famous to all time.

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It is sensible to dismiss the old horse in good time, lest, failing at the last, he makes the spectators laugh.

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While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.

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For why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if anything gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year?

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You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

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Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

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