All Horace Quotes
- Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. Enlarges
- No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. Drinker
- What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its… Anxious
- Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand. Blessed
- No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. Any
- How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! Economy
- Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts. Case
- He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world… Already Taken
- He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin. Free
- He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living. Dead
- Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. Both
- He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. Badly
- The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. Afraid
- No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. Drinkers
- The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. Been
- Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Avoids
- Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. Danger
- You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. Constantly
- Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. Agamemnon
- It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. Business