A Quote by Horace

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Horace

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

Tacitus

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

Juvenal

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.]

Horace

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]

Horace

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]

Plutarch

There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

Ovid

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

Horace

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

Juvenal

To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]

Martial

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

Horace

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in the image of heaven. The gods can't do their work without us. So let's be bold, in their cause and in our own. It's our job, we humans, to make manifest that which is unmanifest-and to raise into consciousness, in this material dimension, that which had been known before only in heaven.

Steven Pressfield

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

Gene Roddenberry

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