Top 927 Quotes & Sayings by Horace - Page 7
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Nothing is achieved without toil.
Don't carry logs into the forest.
O sweet solace of labors.
[Lat., O laborum
Dulce lenimen.]
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.]
Now, that's enough.
[Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
I wrap myself up in virtue.
[Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]
In my integrity I'll wrap me up.
To know all things is not permitted.
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
Anger is short-lived madness.
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist.
[Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis
Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
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.]
In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
Let Apella the Jew believe it.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
Cease to ask what the morrow
will bring forth,
and set down as gain
each day that fortune grants.
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
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.
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.
[Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.
Every man should measure himself by his own standard.
[Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]
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.
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.
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.
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.
Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.
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.]
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.
A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity.
[Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis
Alteram sortem, bene preparatum
Pectus.]
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
To teach is to delight.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
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.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
[Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
Regumque turres.]
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.
[Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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.
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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