Doe Quotes by Horace

20 Doe quotes by Horace

These twenty verses let Horace apply his lyrical brevity to the notion of Doe. The Roman poet’s balanced phrasing and moral undertone give the theme a timeless, measured quality.

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What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed

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Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

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One Sallow does not make Summer.

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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

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Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

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He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

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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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What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

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Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

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The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

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What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more…

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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds,…

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Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will…

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What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious…

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance…

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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

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Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]

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Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us…

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“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)”

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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

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“Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)”

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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country.

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Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

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