"Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as……" — Horace
"Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true."
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499 Quotes by Horace
Horace has 499 quotes on this site.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness…
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not…
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives…
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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More Fictitious Quotes
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
— Russell Baker
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
— Samuel Johnson
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is…
— James Madison
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the…
— Paul Cezanne
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The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions:…
— Auguste Comte
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The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world.…
— Ernest K. Gann
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This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious.…
— Unknown Author
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The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality…
— Unknown Author
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