All Horace Quotes
- Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown? Culture
- Virtue consists in fleeing vice. Consists
- All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches. All
- Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. Country
- The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would… Aim
- One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all. All
- Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion. Closely
- Those who want much, are always much in need. Contentment
- The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave. Covetous
- The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. Adversity
- My liver swells with bile difficult to repress. Anger
- You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration… Admiration
- Every old poem is sacred. Art
- While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. Faults
- In the word of no master am I bound to believe. Believe
- Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? Eternal
- One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. Both
- Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom. Anybody
- A word once uttered can never be recalled. Funny
- Words will not fail when the matter is well considered. Considered