Horace

Wine unlocks the breast.

— Horace

Anger is a brief lunacy.

— Horace

“Now is the time to drink!”

— Horace

He is not poor who has a competency.

— Horace

Remember to be calm in adversity.

— Horace

Believe it, future generations.

— Horace

Get money first; virtue comes after.

— Horace

Death is the last limit of all things.

— Horace

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

— Horace

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

— Horace

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

— Horace

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

— Horace

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

— Horace

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

— Horace

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

— Horace

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

— Horace

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

— Horace

There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]

— Horace

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any…

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

— Horace

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

— Horace

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

— Horace

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if…

— Horace

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at…

— Horace

Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede…

— Horace

Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will…

— Horace

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

— Horace

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a…

— Horace

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the…

— Horace

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a…

— Horace

“Ut pictura, poesis: erit, quae, si propius stes, Te capiat magis, et quaedam, si longius abstes: Haec amat obscurum: volet haec sub…

— Horace

Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our…

— Horace

The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability…

— Horace

Better to accept whatever happens.

— Horace

“Quae caret ora cruore nostro?”

— Horace

One cannot know everything.

— Horace

“Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.”

— Horace

We get blows and return them.

— Horace