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title: "5 Favour Quotes By Horace"
description: "5 Favour quotes by Horace. Plus more from Horace and more Favour sayings from other authors."
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> [Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/many-terms-which-have-now-dropped-out-of-favour-will-be-revived-and/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/to-the-inexperienced-it-is-a-pleasant-thing-to-court-the-favour-of/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). \[Lat., Odi profanum vulgus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/i-hate-the-uncultivated-crowd-and-keep-them-at-a-distance-favour-me/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [By the favour of the heavens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/by-the-favour-of-the-heavens/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/fortune-delighting-in-her-cruel-task-and-playing-her-wanton-game/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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## Other authors on Favour

## More by Horace

> [Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/strange-is-it-not-that-of-the-myriads-who-before-us-passed-the-door/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/finxerunt-animi-raro-et-perpauca-loquentis-to-action-little-less-to/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/no-verse-can-give-pleasure-for-long-nor-last-that-is-written-by/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/fate-with-impartial-hand-turns-out-the-doom-of-high-and-low-her/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/a-word-once-sent-abroad-flies-irrevocably/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [“Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/natales-grate-numeras-do-you-count-your-birthdays-with-gratitude/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [ In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. \[Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/in-a-moment-comes-either-death-or-joyful-victory-lat-horae-momento/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/dulce-et-decorum-est-pro-patria-mori-it-is-a-sweet-and-becoming-thing/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [ Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. \[Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/neither-men-nor-gods-nor-booksellers-shelves-permit-ordinary-poets-to/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/don-t-yield-to-that-alluring-witch-laziness-or-else-be-prepared-to/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/avoid-inquisitive-persons-for-they-are-sure-to-be-gossips-their-ears/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/you-may-drive-out-nature-with-a-pitchfork-yet-she-still-will-hurry/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/there-is-a-proper-measure-in-all-things-certain-limits-beyond-which/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/never-despair-while-under-the-guidance-and-auspices-of-teucer/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

> [Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/alas-postumus-the-fleeting-years-slip-by-nor-will-piety-give-any-stay/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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