Quotes By Horace

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

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

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.