Horace Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  Horace

  Anger, Passion, Madness

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62, c. 20 BC.

• Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
  Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.

  Horace

  Wise, Strong, Freedom

• Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

  Horace

  Love, Passion, Advice

• The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

  Horace

  Passion, Men, Tyrants

  'Odes' bk. 3, no. 3, l. 1

• The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

  Horace

  Passion, Want, Poet

• Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

  Horace

  Wise, Character, Passion

• Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

  Horace

  Fall, Grief, Passion

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

• Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

  Horace

  Passion, Wine, Secret

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