Life Quotes by Horace

“Faults are soon copied.”

— Horace

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

— Horace

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

— Horace

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

— Horace

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

— Horace

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

— Horace

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

— Horace

Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

— Horace

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

— Horace

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

— Horace

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

— Horace

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

— Horace

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

— Horace

If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

— Horace

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve…

— Horace

“He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he…

— Horace

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

— Horace

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from…

— Horace

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

— Horace

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express…

— Horace

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

— Horace

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

— Horace

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

— Horace

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either…

— Horace

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

— Horace

He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along…

— Horace

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance…

— Horace

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it…

— Horace

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

— Horace

Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

— Horace

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

— Horace

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

— Horace

“Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace”

— Horace

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

— Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

— Horace

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

— Horace

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

— Horace

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

— Horace

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

— Horace

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

— Horace