1,095 Quotes by Horace

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    That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

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    Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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

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    In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

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    Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

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    The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

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    You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

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