Horace famous quotes

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
-- Horace

#Inspirational #Life #Thinking

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
-- Horace

#Wisdom #Book

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
-- Horace

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

A good resolve will make any port.
-- Horace

#Adversity #Port #Resolve

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
-- Horace

#Latin #Mind #Path

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
-- Horace

#Courage #Adversity #Blood

Whatever advice you give, be short.
-- Horace

#Giving #Advice

Rule your mind or it will rule you.
-- Horace

#Inspirational #Mind

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.
-- Horace

#Fall #Honor #Fallen

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
-- Horace

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
-- Horace

#Irritation #Wish #Irritated

Make a good use of the present.
-- Horace

#Time #Use

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
-- Horace

#Knowledge #Injustice

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
-- Horace

#Yield #Sloth #Laziness

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
-- Horace

#Errors #Society #Different

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
-- Horace

#Heart #Adversity #Men

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
-- Horace

#Mistress #Use

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
-- Horace

#Justice #Judging #Faithful

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
-- Horace

#Pride #Vices #Purpose

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
-- Horace

#No Trust #Seize The Day #Morrow

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
-- Horace

#Courage #Stress #Valiant

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
-- Horace

#Adversity #Challenges #Mind

[So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
-- Horace

#Wisdom #Folly

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
-- Horace

#Running #Courage #Rivers

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
-- Horace

#Sweet #Mind #Occasions

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
-- Horace

#Adversity #Genius #Prosperity

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
-- Horace

#Happiness #Laughter #Silly

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
-- Horace

#Work #Hard Work #Grants

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
-- Horace

#Wise #Wisdom #Freedom

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
-- Horace

#Writing #Parent #Firsts

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
-- Horace

#Addiction #Done #Half

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
-- Horace

#Time #Yesterday #Mind

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

#Doe #Littles #Slave

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
-- Horace

#Blessing #Men #Use

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

Life is largely a matter of expectation.
-- Horace

#Inspirational Life #Expectations #Matter

Every old poem is sacred.
-- Horace

#Art #Poetry #Sacred

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
-- Horace

#Wisdom #Cages

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
-- Horace

#Wine #Water #Drinkers

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
-- Horace

#Worry #Anxiety #Matter

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
-- Horace

#Winning #Hands #Pleasure

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
-- Horace

#Adversity #Heart #Good Times

Get money first; virtue comes after.
-- Horace

#Money #Firsts #Get Money

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
-- Horace

#Forgiveness #Asking For Forgiveness #Grants

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.
-- Horace

#Food #Long #Water

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
-- Horace

#Beautiful #Views #Atheism

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

#Anger #Passion #Madness

Anger is short-lived madness.
-- Horace

#Anger Management #Management #Madness

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
-- Horace

#Gratitude #Common #Hungry

Don't long for the unripe grape.
-- Horace

#Long #Grapes

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
-- Horace

#Hurt #Eye #Years

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
-- Horace

#Soul #Relax #Calm

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
-- Horace

#Imagination #Wish #Looks

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
-- Horace

#Courage #Fool #Shame

Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.
-- Horace

#Inspirational #Grateful #Care

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
-- Horace

#Dull #Capture #Reader

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
-- Horace

#Thinking #Looks #Lasts

Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
-- Horace

#Wise #Military #Venture

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
-- Horace

#Death #Kings #Men

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
-- Horace

#Inspirational #Adversity #Genius

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
-- Horace

#Inspirational #Seize The Day #Tomorrow

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...
-- Horace

#Thankful

A picture is a poem without words
-- Horace

#Art

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
-- Horace

#Adversity #Opportunity #Giving

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
-- Horace

#Motivational #Positive #Wise

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
-- Horace

#Music #Singing #Want

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
-- Horace

#Teacher #Want #Teach

He who is greedy is always in want.
-- Horace

#Money #Greed #Investing

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
-- Horace

#Eye #Mind #Ears

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
-- Horace

#Happiness #Men #Mind

What's well begun is half done.
-- Horace

#Done #Half #Wells

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
-- Horace

#Care #Take Care #Translate

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
-- Horace

#Adversity #Genius #Fortune

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
-- Horace

#Writing #Gains #Applause

They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
-- Horace

#Running #Travel #Sea

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
-- Horace

#Inspirational #Adversity #Genius

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
-- Horace

#Silence

One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti.]
-- Horace

#Death #Night #Way

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]
-- Horace

#Men #Hours #Enough

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
-- Horace

#Fate #Gains #Granted

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]
-- Horace

#Business #Physicians #Tools

Death is the last limit of all things.
-- Horace

#Death #Lasts #Limits

Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]
-- Horace

#Moon #New Moon

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
-- Horace

#Death #Kings #Towers

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
-- Horace

#Death #Matter #Boundaries

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.
-- Horace

#Events #May #Looking Forward

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
-- Horace

#Death #Suicide #Cutting

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
-- Horace

#Procrastination #Eye #Mind

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
-- Horace

#Curiosity #Talkers #Inquisitive

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]
-- Horace

#Men #Heaven #Naked

I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]
-- Horace

#Hate #Distance #Silence

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
-- Horace

#Ridicule #Employed

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
-- Horace

#Honor #Riches #Slave

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

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
-- Horace

#Desire #Care #Riches

Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
-- Horace

#Character #Lasts #Consistent

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
-- Horace

#Endeavour #Circumstances

I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
-- Horace

#Cutting #Iron #Vices

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]
-- Horace

#Character #Excellence #Littles

We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]
-- Horace

#Death #Sooner Or Later