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Horace Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
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.]
It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
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.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain.
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
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.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
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.
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
[Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
Fortuna non mutat genus.]
[Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
Fortuna non mutat genus.]
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.