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He is always a slave who cannot live on little. -- Horace
The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.
[Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.] -- Horace
Never without a shilling in my purse. -- Horace
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. -- Horace
You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, ... a hog from Epicurus' herd.
[Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
... Epicuri de grege porcum.] -- Horace
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand. -- Horace
Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.
[Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.] -- Horace
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. -- Horace
Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
Nor men the weak anxieties of age. -- Horace
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. -- Horace
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. -- Horace
A poem is like a painting. -- Horace
If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.
[Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.] -- Horace
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last. -- Horace
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes. -- Horace
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. -- Horace
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness. -- Horace
Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty. -- Horace
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
[Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.] -- Horace
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously. -- Horace
Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward. -- Horace
Live mindful of how brief your life is. -- Horace
Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium -- Horace
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea. -- Horace
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.] -- Horace
Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.) -- Horace
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. -- Horace
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.] -- Horace
The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret.] -- Horace
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves. -- Horace
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered. -- Horace
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
[Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus
Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.] -- Horace
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects. -- Horace
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. -- Horace
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. -- Horace
Moreover, you can't stand so much as an hour of your own company
or spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truant
or fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.
But it's no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels -- Horace
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat -- Horace
In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.] -- Horace
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine. -- Horace
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. -- Horace
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. -- Horace
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce. -- Horace
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting. -- Horace
Gold will be slave or master. -- Horace
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. -- Horace
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. -- Horace
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. -- Horace
Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity.
[Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem;
Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.] -- Horace
To carry timber into the wood.
[Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.] -- Horace
He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that will make money for the publisher, cross the seas, and extend the fame of the author. -- Horace
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty! -- Horace
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum? -- Horace
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape. -- Horace
Hatched in the same nest. -- Horace
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. -- Horace
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech. -- Horace
Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands. -- Horace
He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold.
[Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam
Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.] -- Horace
Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach'rous shore. -- Horace
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them. -- Horace
He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
[Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.] -- Horace
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. -- Horace
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. -- Horace
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts. -- Horace
Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release. -- Horace
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can. -- Horace
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth. -- Horace
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. -- Horace
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. -- Horace
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. -- Horace
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again. -- Horace
Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain. -- Horace
No one is content with his own lot. -- Horace
Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence. -- Horace
In giving advice I advise you, be short. -- Horace
He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine. -- Horace
He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place. -- Horace
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist. -- Horace
By the favour of the heavens -- Horace
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits. -- Horace
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. -- Horace
A man polished to the nail.
[Lat., Ad unguem factus home.] -- Horace
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek. -- Horace
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.) -- Horace
All things considered, nothing is beautiful. -- Horace
Nothing is swifter than rumor. -- Horace
I teach that all men are mad. -- Horace
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. -- Horace
Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? -- Horace
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly. -- Horace
Struggling to be brief I become obscure. -- Horace
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with. -- Horace
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him. -- Horace
Now drown care in wine.
[Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.] -- Horace
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. -- Horace
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth. -- Horace
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you. -- Horace
In my integrity I'll wrap me up. -- Horace
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop. -- Horace
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.] -- Horace
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.
[Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.] -- Horace
Limbs of a dismembered poet. -- Horace
Ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.
[it is reason and wisdom which take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.] -- Horace
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. -- Horace
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. -- Horace
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. -- Horace
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us. -- Horace
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
[Lat., Horae
Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] -- Horace
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. -- Horace
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. -- Horace
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. -- Horace
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me. -- Horace
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year. -- Horace
Whatever advice you give, be short. -- Horace
Anger is a short madness. -- Horace
I want to live, and die with you. -- Horace
It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland. -- Horace
No master can make me swear blind obedience. -- Horace
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. -- Horace
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches. -- Horace
Leave the rest to the gods. -- Horace
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried.
[Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori
Coelum, negata tentat iter via.] -- Horace
One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.
[Lat., Omnes una manet nox,
Et calcanda semel via leti.] -- Horace
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. -- Horace
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
[Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.] -- Horace
That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall. -- Horace
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. -- Horace
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes. -- Horace
I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
[Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Favete linguis.] -- Horace
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow. -- Horace
The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.
[Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.] -- Horace
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority. -- Horace
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. -- Horace
Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.) -- Horace
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. -- Horace
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. -- Horace
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove. -- Horace
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself. -- Horace
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance. -- Horace
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. -- Horace
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. -- Horace
He tells old wives' tales much to the point. -- Horace
Tear thyself from delay. -- Horace
Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen.
[Lat., Quod medicorum est
Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.] -- Horace
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. -- Horace
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.] -- Horace
Cease to ask what the morrow
will bring forth,
and set down as gain
each day that fortune grants. -- Horace
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift. -- Horace
Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
[Lat., Vir bonus est quis?
Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.] -- Horace
Sometimes even excellent Homer nods. -- Horace
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
[Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.] -- Horace
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] -- Horace
And yet more bright
Shines out the Julian star,
As moon outglows each lesser light.
[Lat., Micat inter omnes
Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes
Luna minores.] -- Horace
I court not the votes of the fickle mob. -- Horace
You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain. -- Horace
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine. -- Horace
When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure. -- Horace
For my part, whether sailing in cruiser or dinghy, I shall remain myself. My sails are not puffed out with the north wind in my favour, nor am I beating into the southern gales of affliction. -- Horace
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. -- Horace
He gets every vote who combines the useful with the pleasant, and who, at the same time he pleases the reader, also instructs him. -- Horace
Be smart, drink your wine. -- Horace
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war. -- Horace
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself. -- Horace
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them. -- Horace
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. -- Horace
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. -- Horace
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. -- Horace
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. -- Horace
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. -- Horace
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. -- Horace
The dispute is still before the judge. -- Horace
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -- Horace
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. -- Horace
The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke. -- Horace
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough. -- Horace
This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture. -- Horace
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. -- Horace
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. -- Horace
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. -- Horace
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? -- Horace
There is no retracing our steps. -- Horace
There is no such thing as perfect happiness. -- Horace
One cannot know everything. -- Horace
There is moderation in everything. -- Horace
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. -- Horace
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs. -- Horace
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. -- Horace
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. -- Horace
The bowl dispels corroding cares. -- Horace
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. -- Horace
I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
[Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.] -- Horace
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. -- Horace
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. -- Horace
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. -- Horace
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. -- Horace
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. -- Horace
Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. -- Horace
Luck cannot change birth. -- Horace
Let's put a limit to the scramble for money ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end. -- Horace
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. -- Horace
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. -- Horace
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. -- Horace
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew. -- Horace
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself. -- Horace
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. -- Horace
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward. -- Horace
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.) -- Horace
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress. -- Horace
Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen. -- Horace
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe -- Horace
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. -- Horace
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. -- Horace
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. -- Horace
The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter. -- Horace
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. -- Horace
Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.
(Whatever advice you give, be brief.) -- Horace
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. -- Horace
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. -- Horace
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things.
[Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.] -- Horace
If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice. -- Horace
It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
[Lat., Delere licebit
Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.] -- Horace
The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes. -- Horace
To please great men is not the last degree of praise. -- Horace
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. -- Horace
More brave in despising gold as yet undiscovered, and so best situated while hidden in the earth, than in forcing it out for the uses of mankind, with a hand ready to make depredations on everything that is sacred. -- Horace
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded. -- Horace
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. -- Horace
I have completed a monument more lasting than brass. -- Horace
Who guides below, and rules above,
The great disposer, and the mighty king;
Than He none greater, next Him none,
That can be, is, or was. -- Horace
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. -- Horace
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance. -- Horace
A good scare is worth more than good advice. -- Horace
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment. -- Horace
We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth.
[Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium
Versatur urna serius, ocius
Sors exitura.] -- Horace
Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith -- Horace
Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem. -- Horace
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. -- Horace
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? -- Horace
All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
[Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.] -- Horace
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge. -- Horace
An undertaking beset with danger. -- Horace
A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone. -- Horace
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me. -- Horace
The story is told of yourself. -- Horace
Small things become small folks. -- Horace
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. -- Horace
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? -- Horace
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. -- Horace
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. -- Horace
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires. -- Horace
Happy he who far from business persuits
Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands
With oxen of his own breeding
Having no slavish yoke about his neck. -- Horace
Better to accept whatever happens. -- Horace
It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
[Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne ...
Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.] -- Horace
I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious. -- Horace
The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest. -- Horace
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? -- Horace
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.] -- Horace
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. -- Horace
It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common. -- Horace
Faults are soon copied. -- Horace
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. -- Horace
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more. -- Horace
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. -- Horace
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. -- Horace
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. -- Horace
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. -- Horace
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. -- Horace
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. -- Horace
To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] -- Horace
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden. -- Horace
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice,
Who ventures life and soul upon the dice. -- Horace
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. -- Horace
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts. -- Horace
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. -- Horace
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. -- Horace
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. -- Horace
No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers -- Horace
Why do you laugh? Change the name and the story is about you -- Horace
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers -- Horace
The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
[Lat., Quin corpus onustum
Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.] -- Horace
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. -- Horace
Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you. -- Horace
O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul? -- Horace
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. -- Horace
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it -- Horace
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. -- Horace
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter. -- Horace
On day is pressed on by another. -- Horace
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. -- Horace
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. -- Horace
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard. -- Horace
When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice. -- Horace
A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.] -- Horace
Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares. -- Horace
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. -- Horace
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year.
[Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] -- Horace
Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters. -- Horace
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. -- Horace
Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe. -- Horace
Half is done when the beginning is done. -- Horace
The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
[Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.] -- Horace
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. -- Horace
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. -- Horace
We are deceived by the appearance of right. -- Horace
Envy is not to be conquered but by death. -- Horace
Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. -- Horace
When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars,
And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars. -- Horace
Nature is harmony in discord. -- Horace
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance. -- Horace
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. -- Horace
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. -- Horace
Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas") -- Horace
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story. -- Horace
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living. -- Horace
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. -- Horace
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on. -- Horace
A good resolve will make any port. -- Horace
Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future. -- Horace
Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping. -- Horace
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. -- Horace
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. -- Horace
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. -- Horace
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut. -- Horace
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. -- Horace
Natales grate numeras?
(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?) -- Horace
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert. -- Horace
It is sweet and honorable to die for your country. -- Horace
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
[Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.] -- Horace
Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.
(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.) -- Horace
I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind. -- Horace
Don't long for the unripe grape. -- Horace
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant. -- Horace
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire. -- Horace
Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb. -- Horace
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest. -- Horace
The man is either mad or his is making verses.
[Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.] -- Horace
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears. -- Horace
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance. -- Horace
Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
(Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born) -- Horace
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.] -- Horace
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret
et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.
(Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back,
Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.) -- Horace
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] -- Horace
These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
[Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent
In mala.] -- Horace
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. -- Horace
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men. -- Horace
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. -- Horace
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. -- Horace
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. -- Horace
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! -- Horace
Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from. -- Horace
The glory is for those who deserve. -- Horace
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion. -- Horace
It is grievous to be caught. -- Horace
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. -- Horace
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. -- Horace
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments. -- Horace
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind. -- Horace
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. -- Horace
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
[Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae
Celata virtus.] -- Horace
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.
[Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae,
Intaminatis fulget honoribus;
Nec sumit aut ponit secures
Arbitrio popularis aurae.] -- Horace
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. -- Horace
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. -- Horace
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. -- Horace
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. -- Horace
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed. -- Horace
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. -- Horace
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem. -- Horace
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
[Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
Fortuna non mutat genus.] -- Horace
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. -- Horace
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile. -- Horace
At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome. -- Horace
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
The false refinements that would keep her out. -- Horace
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection. -- Horace
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs. -- Horace
There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man. -- Horace
It is delightful to play the fool. -- Horace
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old. -- Horace
Force without reason falls of its own weight. -- Horace
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on ... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest. -- Horace
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. -- Horace
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more. -- Horace
He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days. -- Horace
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood. -- Horace
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
[Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.] -- Horace
Quid rides? Mutato nomine et de te fabula narrator. [Why do you laugh ? Change only the name and this story is about you.] -- Horace
Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow. -- Horace
Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future. -- Horace
I strive to be brief, and become obscure. -- Horace
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion. -- Horace
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. -- Horace
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] -- Horace
Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger. -- Horace
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est;
Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.] -- Horace
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.] -- Horace
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away. -- Horace
Give me back my manly vigour, my black hair and ureceded brow
give me back the sweetness in my voice, my musical laugh,
the grief i knew in my cups when the delicious Cinara left me. -- Horace
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer. -- Horace
Carpe diem."
(Odes: I.11) -- Horace
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. -- Horace
Anger is a momentary madness. -- Horace
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. -- Horace
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. -- Horace
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.) -- Horace
It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way. -- Horace
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. -- Horace
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling. -- Horace
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue. -- Horace
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny. -- Horace
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. -- Horace
Riches either serve or govern the possessor. -- Horace
Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror -- Horace
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true -- Horace
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. -- Horace
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. -- Horace
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. -- Horace
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. -- Horace
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. -- Horace
Every man should measure himself by his own standard.
[Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.] -- Horace
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her. -- Horace
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity. -- Horace
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. -- Horace
To drink away sorrow. -- Horace
The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king. -- Horace
The man is either crazy or he is a poet. -- Horace
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected. -- Horace
No, but you're wrong now, and always will be. -- Horace
The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are. -- Horace
He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last. -- Horace
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. -- Horace
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.] -- Horace
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts. -- Horace
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. -- Horace
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. -- Horace
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] -- Horace
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning. -- Horace
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. -- Horace
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. -- Horace
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses. -- Horace
The covetous are always in want. -- Horace
The covetous man is ever in want. -- Horace
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave. -- Horace
Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall. -- Horace
Those who covet much suffer from the want. -- Horace
There are as many preferences as there are men. -- Horace
Dull winter will re-appear. -- Horace
Don't just think, do. -- Horace
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. -- Horace
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. -- Horace
O imitators, you slavish herd! -- Horace
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent. -- Horace
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. -- Horace
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner. -- Horace
Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. -- Horace
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. -- Horace
We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. -- Horace
They change their skies,
but not their souls
who run across the sea. -- Horace
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. -- Horace
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.] -- Horace
The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth. -- Horace
The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. -- Horace
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave. -- Horace
He, that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
Imbitt'ring all his state. -- Horace
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. -- Horace
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. -- Horace
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof. -- Horace
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.] -- Horace
With equal pace, impartial Fate
Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate. -- Horace
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters. -- Horace
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
[Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles
Urguentur ignotique sacro.] -- Horace
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart. -- Horace
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean. -- Horace
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath. -- Horace
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. -- Horace
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. -- Horace
What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? -- Horace
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. -- Horace
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday. -- Horace
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. -- Horace
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track. -- Horace
Pleasure bought with pain does harm. -- Horace
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another. -- Horace
I shall not completely die. -- Horace
Don't waste the opportunity. -- Horace
False praise can please, and calumny affright
None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. -- Horace
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. -- Horace
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 rounded off and polished. -- Horace
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue. -- Horace
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. -- Horace
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. -- Horace
I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods. -- Horace
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. -- Horace
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. -- Horace
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. -- Horace
The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn. -- Horace
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. -- Horace
The man is either mad, or he is making verses. -- Horace
Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn.
[Lat., Neque semper arcum
Tendit Apollo.] -- Horace
I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets. -- Horace
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear. -- Horace
If a better system is thine, impart it if not, make use of mine. -- Horace
Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability. -- Horace
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme. -- Horace
He is praised by some, blamed by others. -- Horace
If you can realistically render
a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint
a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck? -- Horace
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. -- Horace
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
The surest guard is innocence:
None knew, till guilt created fear,
What darts or poisoned arrows were -- Horace
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire. -- Horace
Strength without judgment falls by its own weight. -- Horace
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. -- Horace
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue. -- Horace
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds;
High towers fall with a heavier crash;
And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. -- Horace
In love there are two evils: war and peace. -- Horace
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. -- Horace
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. -- Horace
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. -- Horace
The arrow will not always find the mark intended. -- Horace
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom. -- Horace
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry. -- Horace
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence. -- Horace
If you wish people to weep, you must weep first. -- Horace
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. -- Horace
I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.] -- Horace
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot. -- Horace
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.] -- Horace
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it. -- Horace
A man of refined taste and judgment. -- Horace
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? -- Horace
Amiability shines by its own light. -- Horace
Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death.
[Lat., Truditur dies die,
Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.] -- Horace
As shines the moon amid the lesser fires. -- Horace
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow. -- Horace
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong>strongstrong> to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself. -- Horace
Busy idleness urges us on. -- Horace
Those that are little, little things suit. -- Horace
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still. -- Horace
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. -- Horace
In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.
[Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.] -- Horace
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. -- Horace
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!"). -- Horace
If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
[Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.] -- Horace
he who is greedy is always in want -- Horace
Anger is short-lived madness. -- Horace
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. -- Horace
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. -- Horace
He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish. -- Horace
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure. -- Horace
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain. -- Horace
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much. -- Horace
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. -- Horace
Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies
In wisdom :therefore study to be wise. -- Horace
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.] -- Horace
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. -- Horace
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. -- Horace
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? -- Horace
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. -- Horace
Whatever advice you give, be brief. -- Horace
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it. -- Horace
Nonsense, now and then, is pleasant. -- Horace
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original. -- Horace
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. -- Horace
Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done. -- Horace
He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth. -- Horace
Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
[Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.] -- Horace
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. -- Horace
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature. -- Horace
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. -- Horace
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. -- Horace
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity. -- Horace
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. -- Horace
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses. -- Horace
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy. -- Horace
No man is born without faults. -- Horace
He is not poor who has a competency. -- Horace
Wine unlocks the breast. -- Horace
Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. -- Horace
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful. -- Horace
To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way. -- Horace
carpe diem (seize the day)
Enjoy! Enjoy! -- Horace
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. -- Horace
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. -- Horace
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?. -- Horace
That best of blessings, a contented mind. -- Horace
Whatever your advice, make it brief. -- Horace
What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it? -- Horace
An accomplished man to his fingertips. -- Horace
Those who want much, are always much in need. -- Horace
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you. -- Horace
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were. -- Horace
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. -- Horace
Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt. -- Horace
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools. -- Horace
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? -- Horace
Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind. -- Horace