Love Quotes by Horace

68 Love quotes by Horace

When Horace turned his keen eye to love, he blended wit with wisdom, offering a compact yet resonant set of verses that still feel fresh. These 68 lines capture his lyrical balance of desire, duty, and the everyday heart.

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Don't just think, do.

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A pauper in the midst of wealth.

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That best of blessings, a contented mind.

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There is moderation in everything.

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Let Apella the Jew believe it.

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Humble things become the humble.

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A poem is like a painting.

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The grammarians are arguing.

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If a better system is thine, impart it if not, make use of mine.

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Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...

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

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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

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Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

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All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

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

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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

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One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

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He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

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

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I want to live, and die with you.

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

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I shall not altogether die.

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Books have their destinies.

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Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

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We are all gathered to the same fold.

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One cannot know everything.

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Punishment follows close on crime.

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Busy idleness urges us on.

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There is a middle ground in things.

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He will be beloved when he is no more.

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Music is an incitement to love.

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I shall not completely die.

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To know all things is not permitted.

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There is nothing assured to mortals.

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Don't carry logs into the forest.

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Anger is a momentary madness.

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It is grievous to be caught.

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The same night awaits us all.

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I am doubting what to do.

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Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us…

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“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)”

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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

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“Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)”

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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country.

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Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

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