Pleasure Quotes by Horace

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

— Horace

“What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.”

— Horace

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

— Horace

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

— Horace

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

— Horace

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

— Horace

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

— Horace

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

— Horace

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

— Horace

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

— Horace

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

— Horace

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

— Horace

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

— Horace

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

— Horace

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et…

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace