Horace Quotes

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

Anger is a momentary madness.

Who's started has half finished.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

A poem is like a painting.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Don't waste the opportunity.

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

Leave the rest to the gods.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

No man is born without faults.

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

What has not wasting time impaired?

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.