Horace Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

  Horace

  Father, Oxen, Agriculture

• Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

  Horace

  Father, Parent, Caverns

  Horace (1901). “Q. Horatii Flacci Odæ, Epodæ, Carmen sæculare”

• 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

  Life, Cheer, Father

• I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

  Horace

  Father, Sunshine, Clouds

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book III, ode xxix, line 41, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

• Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

  Horace

  Father, Literature, Injustice

• Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
  [Lat., Vir bonus est quis?
  Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

  Horace

  Father, Men, Law

• He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

  Horace

  Lying, Father, Deceiving Others

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