Horace Quotes

Pactum serva - Keep the faith

~ Horace

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

~ Horace

Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

~ Horace

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

~ Horace

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

~ Horace

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

~ Horace

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

~ Horace

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

~ Horace

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

~ Horace

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

~ Horace

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

~ Horace

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

~ Horace

Moreover, you can’t stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truantor fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.But it’s no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels

~ Horace

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

~ Horace

Anger is a brief madness.

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Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)

~ Horace

Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)

~ Horace

The story is told of yourself.

~ Horace

So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits,On waking, you'll be tortured by envy or lust.Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, whenIf it's your mind, you put off the cure till next year?Who's started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!

~ Horace

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

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Faults are soon copied.

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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

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

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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

~ Horace

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

~ Horace

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

~ Horace

He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say I have lived. Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

~ Horace

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

~ Horace

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

~ Horace

He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.

~ Horace

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived and those that are at present respectable will drop out if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

~ Horace

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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

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

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

~ Horace

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

~ Horace

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

~ Horace