Top 927 Quotes & Sayings by Horace - Page 5
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave.
[Lat., Tristia maestum
Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum;
Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
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.
Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour.
[Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis
Cautum est in horas.]
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
[Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus,
Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret.]
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.]
Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.
False praise can please, and calumny affright
None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.
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.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
Don't just put it off and think about it!
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
Faults are soon copied.
A good resolve will make any port.
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
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.]
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen.
[Lat., Quod medicorum est
Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]
He is not poor who has a competency.
Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
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.]
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.]
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
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.
Poets, the first instructors of mankind,
Brought all things to the proper native use.
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
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