Words matter. These are the best Horace Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Anger is a short madness.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Make a good use of the present.
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
A picture is a poem without words.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Always keep your composure. You can’t score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Leave the rest to the gods.
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Always keep your composure. You can’t score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
I teach that all men are mad.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Don’t think, just do.
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
We are free to yield to truth.
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.
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.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
