All HORACE Quotes about “Life”

“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”
“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”
“Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?”
“As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.”
“That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.”
“Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.”
“Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.”
“If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.”
“Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.”
“He is always a slave who cannot live on little.”
“In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.”
“He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]”

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