Book I, epistle ii, lines 41–42
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Originale: (la) Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
Rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis.
Quinto Orazio Flacco: Frasi in inglese (pagina 5)
Quinto Orazio Flacco era poeta romano. Frasi in inglese.“Vis consili expers mole ruit sua.”
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Book III, ode iv, line 65
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
“Adclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.”
The mind enamored with deceptive things, declines things better.
Book II, satire ii, line 6
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
“My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.”
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Originale: (la) Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum.
Book I, epistle i, line 11
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
Originale: (la) Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Book I, satire ix, line 59
Book I, satire i, lines 92-94, as translated by N. Rudd
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
“Tommorrow we will be back on the vast ocean.”
The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings
“Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.”
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam.
Book I, ode iv, line 15
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
“Nor word for word too faithfully translate.”
Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus
Interpres.
Origine: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 133 (tr. John Dryden)