Quotes By Horace

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

A picture is a poem without words.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Don't think, just do.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Leave the rest to the gods.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.