"Poets wish to profit or to please." — Horace
"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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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 Please Quotes
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all…
— Teresa of Avila
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you…
— Michele Bachmann
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
— Francis Bacon
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Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not…
— Glenn Beck
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products…
— Hans Bender
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I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a…
— Tony Blair
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Please all, and you will please none.
— Aesop
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well…
— Andrea Bocelli
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right,…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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