Horace /Quintus Horatius Flaccus/ quotes English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. Born: 12/08/0065 Died: 11/27/0008 Country: italy

• What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. ( Horace) [punishment]
• If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. ( Horace) [misfortune]
• Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character. ( Horace) [change/character]
• Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent. ( Horace) [character/start]
• He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. ( Horace) [willpower]
• I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. ( Horace)
• Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. ( Horace) [death/king]
• You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. ( Horace) [search/happiness/reach/mind]
• I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. ( Horace) [willpower]
• The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. ( Horace) [high/mountain]
• Gold will be slave or master. ( Horace) [gold/willpower/slave/master]
• We are free to yield to truth. ( Horace) [truth]
• What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself. ( Horace)
• What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. ( Horace)
• Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe. ( Horace) [lord/death]
• Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. ( Horace)
• He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living. ( Horace) [willpower]
• Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. ( Horace) [right/moment]
• It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ( Horace) [shame/wounds]
• The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. ( Horace)
• Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ( Horace) [fortune/fool]
• Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. ( Horace)
• To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. ( Horace) [fear]
• They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea. ( Horace) [change]
• Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. ( Horace) [willpower]
• How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course? ( Horace) [content/chance/follow]
• Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. ( Horace) [fortune]
• Life gives nothing to man without labor. ( Horace) [life]
• Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. ( Horace) [knowledge/education]
• He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. ( Horace)
• He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. ( Horace) [death]

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