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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Roman poet
(65 BC - 8 BC)
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Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death.
  [Lat., Truditur dies die,
    Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]
      - Carmina (bk. II, 18, 15) [Day]

Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
  [Lat., Nil cupientium
    Nudus castra peti.]
      - Carmina (bk. III, 16, 22) [Desire]

Penniless amid great plenty.
  [Lat., Magnas inter opes inops.]
      - Carmina (bk. III, 16, 28) [Poverty]

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
  [Lat., Multa petentibus
    Desunt multa.
      Bene est, cui Deus obtulit
        Parca, quod satis est manu.]
      - Carmina (bk. III, 16, 42) [Satisfaction]

What does not destructive time destroy?
  [Lat., Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?]
      - Carmina (bk. III, 6, 45) [Time]

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.
  [Lat., Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis;
    Est in juvenis, est in equibus patrum
      Virtus; nee imbellem feroces
        Progenerant aquilae columbam.]
      - Carmina (bk. IV, 4) [Ancestry : Proverbs]

We are dust and shadow.
  [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]
      - Carmina (bk. IV, 7, l. 16) [Man]

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.
  [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
    Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
      - Carmina (I, 1, 35) [Poets]

And yet more bright
  Shines out the Julian star,
    As moon outglows each lesser light.
      [Lat., Micat inter omnes
        Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes
          Luna minores.]
      - Carmina (I, 12, 47) [Stars]

Happy and thrice happy are they who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day.
  [Lat., Felices ter et amplius
    Quos irrupta tenet copula, nec malis
      Divulsus querimoniis
        Suprema citius solvet amor die.]
      - Carmina (I, 13, 17) [Matrimony]

O daughter, more beautiful than thy lovely mother.
  [Lat., O matre pulchra filia pulchrior.]
      - Carmina (I, 16, 1) [Beauty]

The gods my protectors.
  [Lat., Di me tuentur.]
      - Carmina (I, 17, 13) [Gods]

Plant no other tree before the vine.
  [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.]
      - Carmina (I, 18),
        an imitation of Alcaeus in sense and meter
        [Trees]

By wine eating cares are put to flight.
  [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
      - adapted from Carmina (I, 18, 4)
        [Wine and Spirits]

Who prates of war or want after his wine?
  [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
      - Carmina (I, 18, 5) [Wine and Spirits]

Red light hand.
  [Lat., Rubente dextra.]
      - Carmina (I, 2, 2) [Hand]

If whole in life, and free from sin,
  Man needs no Moorish bow, nor dart
    Nor quiver, carrying death within
      By poison's art.
        [Lat., Integer vitae scelerisque purus
          Non eget Mauris incidis neque arcu
            Nec venernatis gravida sagittus
              Fusce pharetra.]
      - Carmina (I, 22, 1),
        (Gladstone's translation) [Character]

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?
  [Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus
    Tam cari capitis?]
      - Carmina (I, 24, 1) [Grief]

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.
  [Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia
    Quicquid corrigere est nefas.]
      - Carmina (I, 24, 19) [Patience]

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
  [Lat., Cui pudor et justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?]
      - Carmina (I, 24, 6) [Modesty]

The naked truth.
  [Lat., Nuda veritas. (Nudaque veritas.)]
      - Carmina (I, 24, 7) [Truth]

One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.
  [Lat., Omnes una manet nox,
    Et calcanda semel via leti.]
      - Carmina (I, 28, 15) [Death]

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes through every crime.
  [Lat., Audax omnia perpeti
    Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.]
      - Carmina (I, 3, 25) [Audacity]

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly.
  [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est:
    Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]
      - Carmina (I, 3, 37) [Ambition]

O sweet solace of labors.
  [Lat., O laborum
    Dulce lenimen.]
      - Carmina (I, 32, 14) [Labor]


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