Horace's most famous quotes (with the Latin and the line)
The top 3 according to 163 votes from people: Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow. · Dare to know. · Remember to keep a calm mind in difficult times.. (Updated Jan 28, 2021.)
"Carpe diem", "Sapere aude", "Anger is a brief madness" and "Pale Death knocks with equal foot…": the sayings of the Roman poet Horace still in circulation two thousand years later, with the Latin original and the exact place in the Odes, Epistles, Satires or Ars Poetica.
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Top 22
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Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.
"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." (Odes I, 11).
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2
Dare to know.
"Sapere aude." (Epistles I, 2, 40).
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Remember to keep a calm mind in difficult times.
"Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem." (Odes II, 3).
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It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." (Odes III, 2).
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I shall not wholly die.
"Non omnis moriar." (Odes III, 30).
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He has won every vote who has blended the useful with the pleasant.
"Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci." (Ars Poetica 343).
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Anger is a brief madness.
"Ira furor brevis est." (Epistles I, 2, 62).
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8
As is painting, so is poetry.
"Ut pictura poesis." (Ars Poetica 361).
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Mix a little folly with your wisdom: it is sweet to play the fool at the right moment.
"Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: dulce est desipere in loco." (Odes IV, 12).
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10
Those who rush across the sea change their sky, not their soul.
"Caelum, non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt." (Epistles I, 11, 27).
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11
Silver is worth less than gold, and gold less than virtue.
"Vilius argentum est auro, virtutibus aurum." (Epistles I, 1, 52).
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12
A word once spoken cannot be taken back.
"Nescit vox missa reverti." (Ars Poetica 390).
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13
Pale Death knocks with equal foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.
"Pallida Mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres." (Odes I, 4).
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14
We are deceived by the appearance of what is right.
"Decipimur specie recti." (Ars Poetica 25).
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15
No one is born free of faults.
"Nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur." (Satires I, 3, 68).
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16
If things are bad now, they will not always be so.
"Non, si male nunc, et olim sic erit." (Odes II, 10).
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17
Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit." (Epistles II, 1, 156).
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18
The people hiss at me, but I applaud myself at home.
"Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo ipse domi." (Satires I, 1, 66).
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19
What prevents one from telling the truth with a laugh?
"Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?" (Satires I, 1, 24).
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Those who seek much lack much.
"Multa petentibus desunt multa." (Odes III, 16).
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What cannot be put right is made lighter by patience.
"Levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas." (Odes I, 24).
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22
Saving a man against his will is the same as killing him.
"Invitum qui servat idem facit occidenti." (Ars Poetica 467).
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Comments (1)
Qué gusto ver el verso exacto de cada una. En el instituto nos hicieron traducir la oda del carpe diem y ahí sigo, sin aprovechar el día.