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Quintus Fabius Maximus

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MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or ...
SASKYA PANDITA Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE Not to be cheered by praise,
Not to be grieved by blame,
But to know thoroughly ones own vir...
SASKYA PANDITA Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
HOWARD TAYLER Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
RAE CARSON Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ...
LEE CHILD Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.
LOUISE L. HAY Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and y...
MICHELLE GEANEY To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
STIRLING MOSS One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind
TAURUS MORGAN In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

-The Seventy...
HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 16:
Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.

-The Seventy M...
HOWARD TAYLER First rule of thievery,' Eli said, grinning, 'only run if you're not coming back.' (...) 'First rule...
RACHEL AARON Things it helps me to remember
When in a bad mood, keep quiet or still.
Baggy jumpers don�...
AIDAN CHAMBERS ...I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them ...
RACHEL JOYCE People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL Love is holy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART Maxim 18:
If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. HOWARD TAYLER It is not enough to conquer, one must [also] learn to seduce.
VOLTAIRE Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!
TAE YUN KIM Maxim 28:
If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for ...
HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 20:
If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.
HOWARD TAYLER Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.
OMEGA MAVERICK Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the ...
ÉMILE ZOLA Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
BILL MEYER Right now I've got just two rules to live by.

Rule one: don't taunt elephants.
Rule ...
HOWARD TAYLER God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.
PAULO COELHO My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the futu...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Intense, sustained focus fuels manifestation.
T.F. HODGE Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.
G. C LICHTENBERG You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
RICHARD BRANSON Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or...
SATCHEL PAIGE Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
CARMELA DUTRA Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtue...
SATCHEL PAIGE I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years
HENRY MOORE Maxim 6:
If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 3:
An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.

-The Seventy Maxi...
HOWARD TAYLER Live the present in such a way that in the future, you will need not be ashamed of your past.
MARK HAMPTON WAYNE Careful, lest sentiment governs your ideals.
A.H. SEPTIMIUS I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in t...
MADELEINE L’ENGLE Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake.
SARU SINGHAL Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to ...
ANDREW ASHLING Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
CLIVE OLLIES Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT All of a sudden,
You seemed to be
Stranger than a fiction,
to me.
SHILLPI S BANERRJI Maxim 8:
Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.<...
HOWARD TAYLER Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come int...
EMERY ALLEN Who am I?" she snaps. "I am America, Israel, England! What am I doing?" She waits another long momen...
DIANA ABU-JABER Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
GEORGE SANTAYANA How do you know about the world is real?...
How?...
How you don't think that you are locke...
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GUY DE MAUPASSANT A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p...
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GERMANY KENT You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.
DONNA MILLS When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES A. BALDWIN Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always.
Either heaven, or hell:
no comfortable s...
WILLIAM FAULKNER We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were not ther...
MOTHER TERESA Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds. Sonnet 116
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TAE YUN KIM Seek the Blame; Give Away the Fame
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I'm a one night stand
Don't belong to no city
Don't belong to no man<...
HALSEY Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive cou...
FRANCIS BACON I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive coun...
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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

More Quintus Fabius Maximus

Whatever you do in life, echoes thru eternity.
MAXIMUS Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.
TYRIUS MAXIMUS I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.
LAURENT FABIUS The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages...
LAURENT FABIUS There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and ...
LAURENT FABIUS This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inf...
LAURENT FABIUS We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social mo...
LAURENT FABIUS derail economic expectations of economic agents, and put public budgets in danger of new imbalances.
LAURENT FABIUS We have strayed from a rational (oil) market equilibrium and it is our duty to reset this market's r...
LAURENT FABIUS The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process,
LAURENT FABIUS The Commission's proposal was adopted by all countries except Ireland, ... It is true it is the firs...
LAURENT FABIUS with confidence, but not complacency.
LAURENT FABIUS if the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).
LAURENT FABIUS When he announces that he's going to visit such and such a commune or suburb every week, that's not ...
LAURENT FABIUS I do think there is a need for coordination of economic policy, but this doesn't mean that everybody...
LAURENT FABIUS controlled very, very closely.
LAURENT FABIUS We need to act at the same time on prevention, repression, education, housing, jobs ... and not play...
LAURENT FABIUS Fear not death; fear not having lived.
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS If idiots can’t think for themselves, then what is a movement of idiots?

A herd followi...
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS Love yourself’ the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing ...
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
QUINTUS ENNIUS O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - ...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
QUINTUS ENNIUS He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
QUINTUS ENNIUS They hate whom they fear.
QUINTUS ENNIUS He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
QUINTUS ENNIUS No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
QUINTUS ENNIUS No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.
QUINTUS ENNIUS One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem qui...
QUINTUS ENNIUS May his body rest free from evil. [Lat., Corpus requiescat a malis.]
QUINTUS ENNIUS Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fr...
QUINTUS ENNIUS He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp fro...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and f...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUS Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur'

[A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]
QUINTUS ENNIUS They hate whom they fear
QUINTUS ENNIUS He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within
QUINTUS ENNIUS Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed
QUINTUS ENNIUS No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars
QUINTUS ENNIUS To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen
QUINTUS ENNIUS He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
QUINTUS ENNIUS A little moralizing's good - a little: I like a taste, but not a bath of it
QUINTUS ENNIUS O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - ...
QUINTUS ENNIUS Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fr...
QUINTUS ENNIUS It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte immine...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sed...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subes...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum inc...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mor...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of ...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat.,...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS But few prize honour more than money.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntu...
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et S...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you re...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim,...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. [Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus v...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. [Lat., Deficit omne quod nascitur.]
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserar...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick h...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in th...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and prec...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulor...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather ...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) During war, the laws are silent.
QUINTUS TULLIUS CICERO Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
QUINTUS TULLIUS CICERO Fear makes men believe the worst.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS TERTULLIANUS Out of the frying pan into the fire.
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS TERTULLIANUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [La...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici, Occa...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indic...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pec...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat.,...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A crafty knave needs no broker.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mih...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium Nudus castra peti.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous m...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fug...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand w...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of th...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) One man with courage makes a majority.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyra...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness? [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam Simple...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [Lat., Male verum examinat omnis Corr...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed le...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brev...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat.,...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dan...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas Sortitur ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant h...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less qua...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natur...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours. [Lat., Demens Judicio vulgi, sanus fo...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby t...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wa...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duch...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acr...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Bolt from the blue.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matr...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae F...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Calig...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultim...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugn...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of th...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence ...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. [Lat., Intererit multum Davusne loquat...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unar...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) You will swim without cork (without help). [Lat., Nabis sine cortice.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. [Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, pari...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia t...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemqu...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. [Lat., C...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?] ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Drawing is the true test of art.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorro...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum es...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio s...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrant...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, in...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat.,...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., ...
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