All Horace Quotes
- Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds. Conceal
- Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start Beginnings
- If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. Anxiety
- By the favour of the heavens Favour
- Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale. Brass
- Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent. Began
- You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart. Depart
- It is grievous to be caught. Caught
- Don't just think, do. Inspirational
- The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected. Expected
- The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. Art
- There is nothing assured to mortals. Assured
- Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. Avoid
- When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. Brief
- If a better system is thine, impart it if not, make use of mine. Better
- I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind. All
- Nothing is swifter than rumor. Funny
- What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? Age
- Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. Brief
- Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. Beyond