Top 927 Quotes & Sayings by Horace - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
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.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
Leave the rest to the gods.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Every old poem is sacred.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
I teach that all men are mad.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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.
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
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.
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.
No master can make me swear blind obedience.
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
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.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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