Horace Quotes About Moderation

Quotes about: Moderation

• He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

  Horace

  Life, Doe, Littles

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, 20 BC.

• There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Golden

• There is moderation in everything.

  Horace

  Philosophical, Moderation

  Satires bk. 1, no. 1, l. 106

• Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
  [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Tutus

• Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
  So shalt thou live beyond the reach
  Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
  Not always tempt the distant deep,
  Nor always timorously creep
  Along the treach'rous shore.

  Horace

  Truth, Moderation, Fortune

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

• He, that holds fast the golden mean,
  And lives contentedly between
  The little and the great,
  Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
  Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
  Imbitt'ring all his state.

  Horace

  Mean, Men, Doors

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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