Top 927 Quotes & Sayings by Horace - Page 16
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
[Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]
A man polished to the nail.
[Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]
The good hate sin because they love virtue.
[Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
Who prates of war or want after his wine?
[Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
Hatched in the same nest.
Brighter than Parian marble.
Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.
To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
The dispute is still before the judge.
I shall not completely die.
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
[Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
Fortuna non mutat genus.]
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried.
[Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori
Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]
All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
[Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]
At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.
By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
[Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.
Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent?
[Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
To carry timber into the wood.
[Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]
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