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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Roman poet
(65 BC - 8 BC)
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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
      - [Proverbs]

He alone can claim this name, who write
  With fancy high, and bold and daring Flights.
      - [Genius]

He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar.
      - [Proverbs]

He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.]
      - [Proverbs]

He can afford to be a fool.
      - [Proverbs]

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.
      - [Proverbs]

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]
      - [Proverbs]

He has mastered all points who has combined the useful with the agreeable.
      - [Policy]

He is not poor who has a competency.
      - [Proverbs]

He is praised by some, blamed by others.
      - [Proverbs]

He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
      - [Proverbs]

He possesses dominion over himself and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." To-morrow the Heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
      - [Retrospection]

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.
      - [Proverbs]

He that cuts off twenty years of life
  Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
      - [Death]

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.
      - [Proverbs]

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
      - [Proverbs]

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.
      - [Avarice]

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

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.
      - [Proverbs]

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
      - [Proverbs]

He will be beloved when he is no more.
      - [Proverbs]

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
      - [Proverbs]

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
      - [Proverbs]

Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.
      - [Proverbs]

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.
      - [Proverbs]


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