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All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.] (Horace Quotes)
Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.] (Horace Quotes)
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment’s an ambush. (Horace Quotes)
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.] (Horace Quotes)
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil. (Horace Quotes)
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.] (Horace Quotes)
And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. [Lat., Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores.] (Horace Quotes)
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. (Horace Quotes)
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. (Horace Quotes)
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. (Horace Quotes)
Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms. (Horace Quotes)
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. (Horace Quotes)
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were (Horace Quotes)
Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune’s pow’r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach’rous shore. (Horace Quotes)
Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.] (Horace Quotes)
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] (Horace Quotes)
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.] (Horace Quotes)
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. (Horace Quotes)
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] (Horace Quotes)
Nor let a God come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.] (Horace Quotes)
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.] (Horace Quotes)
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.] (Horace Quotes)
He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man’s door, Imbitt’ring all his state. (Horace Quotes)
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.] (Horace Quotes)
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude (He who has begun is half done: dare to know!). (Horace Quotes)
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant (Horace Quotes)
Anger is a short madness (Horace Quotes)
Years, following years, steal something every day; at last they steal us from ourselves away (Horace Quotes)
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it (Horace Quotes)
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire (Horace Quotes)