Horace Quotes - Page 18

Quotes about:

Adversity Affairs Age Ambition Anger Anxiety Art

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Horace

Mean, Admiration, Lost

7 Copy quote
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things.
[Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

Horace

Use, Poverty, Poor

7 Copy quote
Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

Horace

Latin, Insulting, Victory

7 Copy quote
What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Horace

Men, Faces, Good Sense

4 Copy quote
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

Horace

Honor, Riches, Influence

"Satires", II. 3. 94, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

7 Copy quote
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Horace

Hard Work, Brain, Nails

4 Copy quote
If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

Horace

Dresses, Fine, Ifs

4 Copy quote
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

Horace

Strong, Freedom, 4th Of July

7 Copy quote
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

Horace

Interesting, Poetry, Enough

"Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, 99, 18 BC.

4 Copy quote
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

Horace

Gay, Sorrow, Sorrowful

"Epistles", I. 18. 89, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 733-36, 1922.

18 Copy quote
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

Horace

Mistake, Ridiculous, Same Mistakes

5 Copy quote
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

Power, Risk, Fancy

11 Copy quote
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

Horace

Men, Duty

4 Copy quote
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

Horace

Moving, Justice, Wicked

7 Copy quote
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

Horace

Rich, Pleasure, Made

4 Copy quote
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

Horace

Light, Confusion, Obscure

4 Copy quote
We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Freedom, Yield

7 Copy quote
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

Horace

Wall, Powerful, Gold

Horace, Philip FRANCIS (D.D.) (1815). “The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis”, p.103

7 Copy quote
Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.
[Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

Horace

Punishment, Terrible, Pursue

7 Copy quote
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Horace

Philosophy, Educational, Words Of Wisdom

8 Copy quote
I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

Horace

Home, Sunset, Mind

60 Copy quote
Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

Horace

Desire

4 Copy quote
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

Horace

Adversity, Genius, Fortune

6 Copy quote
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Horace

Writing, Parent, Literature

9 Copy quote
Live mindful of how brief your life is.

Horace

One Day, Life Is

4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Virgil

Ovid

Catullus

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Juvenal

Homer

Seneca the Younger

Horace

Follow

Born: December 8, 65 BC
Died: November 27, 8 BC
Occupation: Poet
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics