Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.

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"Se caçares, não te gabes; se não caçares, não te enfades."

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"Lyckan kommer lyckan går."

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"Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam, Rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis."

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"Cras ingens iterabimus aequor"

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"Quamquam ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima."

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"What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?"

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"Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturus."

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"Quocirca vivite fortes, fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus"

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"Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end."

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"Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus."

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"Non satis est puris versum perscribere verbis."

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"Atqui si vitiis mediocribus ac mea paucis mendosa est natura, alioqui recta, velut si egregio inspersos reprehendas corpore naevos, si neque avaritiam neque sordes nec mala lustra obiciet vere quisquam mihi, purus et insons, ut me collaudem, si et vivo carus amicis... at hoc nunc laus illi debetur et a me gratia maior. nil me paeniteat sanum patris huius, eoque non, ut magna dolo factum negat esse suo pars, quod non ingenuos habeat clarosque parentis, sic me defendam."

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"Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus."

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"in pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello"

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"Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, labuntur anni nec pietas moram rugis et instanti senectae adferet indomitaeque morti."

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"Auream quisquis mediocritatem diligit, tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula."

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"Ille sinistrorsum, hic dextrorsum abit : unus utrique Error, sed variis illudit partibus."

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"Heu, Fortuna, quis est crudelior in nos Te deus? Ut semper gaudes illudere rebus Humanis!"

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"Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae."

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"Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus; Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis."

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"Bellaque matribus detestata"

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"Nequiquam deus abscidit Prudens Oceano dissociabili Terras, si tamen impiae Non tangenda rates transiliunt vada."

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"Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam."

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"Nil desperandum..."

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"Nunc vino pellite curas."

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"Permitte divis cetera."

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"Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."

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"O matre pulchra filia pulchrior"

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"Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus."

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"Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem."

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"Adclinis falsis animus meliora recusat."

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"Bona pars hominum est decepta cupidine falso 'nil satis est', inquit, 'quia tanti quantum habeas sis."

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"Virginibus puerisque canto."

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"Aequa lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos; Omne capax movet urna nomen."

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"Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida."

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"Si fractus illabatur orbis, impavidum ferient ruinae."

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"Vis consili expers mole ruit sua."

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"Come, Mercury, by whose minstrel spell Amphion raised the Theban stones, Come, with thy seven sweet strings, my shell, Thy "diverse tones," Nor vocal once nor pleasant, now To rich man's board and temple dear: Put forth thy power, till Lyde bow Her stubborn ear."

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"Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam, Maiorumque fames."

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"Magnas inter opes inops."

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"Quod adest memento componere aequus."

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"Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro.""

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"Exegi monumentum aere perennius"

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"Pulvis et umbra sumus."

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"Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona."

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"Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum."

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"Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes."

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"Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima stultitia caruisse."

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"Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati."

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"Nam cur quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum?"

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