Horace Quotes

Let your poem be kept nine years.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the ...

Don't think, just do.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

A picture is a poem without words.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure ...

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain d...

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

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

One cannot know everything.

So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,If you don't set your mind on honest aims and...

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.

Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

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

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m...

he who is greedy is always in want

Well begun is half done.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

I teach that all men are mad.

Anger is a brief madness.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.

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

He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow th...

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...

If matters go badly now they will not always be so.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomor...

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one ...

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Anger is a short madness.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years'...

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

Whatever advice you give be short.

Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...

No one is content with his own lot.

Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

He who is greedy is always in want.

Never despair.

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived and those that are at present respe...

In times of stress be bold and valiant.

The man is either mad or he is making verses.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best ...

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

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out...

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Faults are soon copied.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what t...

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be...

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...

Better to accept whatever happens.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

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

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and...

Now is the time to drink!

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times wi...

Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)

The story is told of yourself.

Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your min...

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as poss...

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

Moreover, you can’t stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you ...

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if yo...

In love there are two evils: war and peace.