Horace Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

  Horace

  Winning, Hands, Pleasure

  "The Art of Poetry". Poem by Horace, Line 343, c. 18 BC.

• Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Men, World

• No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

  Horace

  Long, Giving, Water

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 19, l. 1

• I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
  [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

  Horace

  Sky, Reign, Praise

• Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

  Horace

  May, Too Much, Fly Away

• The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

  Horace

  Sauce, Eating, Pleasure

• Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

  Horace

  Hours, Pleasure, Enjoy

• Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

  Horace

  Pleasure, Source

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Ars Poetica, 338, 1922.

• God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

  Horace

  Rich, Pleasure, Made

• Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

  Horace

  Pain, Pleasure, Despise

• Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

  Horace

  Men, Pleasure, Profession

• That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

  Horace

  Giving, Poetry, Pleasure

  'Odes' bk. 4, no. 3, l. 24

• Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

  Horace

  Pain, Doe, Pleasure

• Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

  Horace

  Too Much, Pleasure, Good Things

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

• The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

  Horace

  Reality, Order, Mind

• If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

  Horace

  Secret, Virtue, Pleasure

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

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