Horace Quotes (232 Quotes)

The passing years steal from us one thing after another

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Leave the rest to the gods.

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

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

The pleasure of eating is not in the costly flavor but in yourself.

He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it already.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

In Rome you long for the country in the country oh inconstant you praise the distant city to the stars

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Seize the day.

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

Those that are little, little things suit.

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

Whatever advice you give, be short.

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

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

The truely generous is the truely wise.

Neither men nor gods nor bookstalls have ever allowed poets to be mediocre.

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

There is moderation in everything.

The snows have fled already the grass is returning to the fields and the leaves to the trees.

Tear thyself from delay.

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

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little

I am not what I was when kindly Cinara was queen. Strive no more, cruel mother of sweet loves.

Who then is free The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been ro

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

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

As in painting, so in poetry.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.