Horace Latin Quotes

#1. It is delightful to play the fool.

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#2. The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

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#3. No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

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#4. There is a middle ground in things.

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#5. We are deceived by the appearance of right.

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#6. Half is done when the beginning is done.

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#7. Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

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#8. Limbs of a dismembered poet.

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#9. Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

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#10. Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

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#11. Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

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#12. Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.

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#13. The grammarians are arguing.

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#14. He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

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#15. I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

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#16. Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

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#17. I am doubting what to do.

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#18. The words can not return.

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#19. From the egg to the apple.

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#20. The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

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#21. No master can make me swear blind obedience.

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#22. He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .

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#23. The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

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#24. It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

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#25. The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

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#26. Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

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#27. The dispute is still before the judge.

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#28. Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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#29. I shall not completely die.

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#30. The glory is for those who deserve.

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#31. I want to live, and die with you.

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#32. Don't waste the opportunity.

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#33. Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

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#34. While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

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#35. Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

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#36. When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

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#37. One Sallow does not make Summer.

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#38. Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

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#39. People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

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#40. The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

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#41. Don't carry logs into the forest.

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#42. One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

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#43. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

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#44. Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

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#45. Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

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#46. The same night awaits us all.

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