Horace Quotes

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

An undertaking beset with danger.

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

Anger is a short madness.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Brighter than Parian marble.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

Faults are soon copied.

Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

Tear thyself from delay.

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.