A Quote by Horace
I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]
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Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
[Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
[Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
[Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.
Every man should measure himself by his own standard.
[Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
[Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]
An honest man is always a child.
[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]
Courage in danger is half the battle.
[Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]
When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long.
[Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]
Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
[Lat., Vir bonus est quis?
Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]
It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.
Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
[Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
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.]
Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
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