Top 927 Quotes & Sayings by Horace - Page 6

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Music is an incitement to love.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

One cannot know everything.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Wine unlocks the breast.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

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

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

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

Words challenge eternity.

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.

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.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

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

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

There is moderation in everything.

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Never without a shilling in my purse.

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

I shall not altogether die.

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

Don't waste the opportunity.

Humble things become the humble.

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.