Horace Quotes About Fate

Quotes about: Fate

• 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 shine, the 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

  Motivation, Rain, Fate

• The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

  Horace

  Fall, Fate, Light

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Carmina, II. 10. 9, 1922.

• With equal pace, impartial Fate
  Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

  Horace

  Fate, Cottages, Pace

  Horace, Philip Francis (1779). “A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators”, p.11

• Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great:
  That ample urn holds all men's names.

  Horace

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  "Odes and Epodes".

• Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Faith, Humor

  'Odes' bk. 1, no. 9, l. 13

• Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

  Horace

  Fate, Hands, Names

• Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

  Horace

  Book, Fate, Live For Today

• Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

  Horace

  Fate, Gains, Granted

• Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

  Horace

  Fate, Add, Each Day

• Little folks become their little fate.

  Horace

  Fate, Littles, Folks

  Horace, Philip Francis (1779). “A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators”, p.348

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