All HORACE Quotes about “Pleasure”

“He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.”
“Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.”
“Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.”
“Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.”
“Pleasure bought with pain does harm.”
“Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.”
“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.”
“If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.”
“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.]”
“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.”
“Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.”
“Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.”
“God made not pleasures for the rich alone.”

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