Quotes by Horace

Horace

Roman poet

Alive from: 65-8 BC

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

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  Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

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  A good scare is worth more than good advice.

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  Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

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  Anger is a brief lunacy.

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  Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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  Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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  Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

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  Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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  A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

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  A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

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  A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

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  A picture is a poem without words.

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  A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

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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 those whose fortune does not suit them.

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  A word once uttered can never be recalled.