Horace Quotes About Birth
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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]
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Luck cannot change birth.
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A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.
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Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.
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Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]
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The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
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