Horace Quotes
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.
- Philosophers
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- Satirists
Also known as: Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse.
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things.
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn.
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
Each passing year robs us of some possession.
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
Nor word for word too faithfully translate.
Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (-18)
In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
Struggling to be brief I become obscure.
Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (-18)
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
Like sick men’s dreams, when shadowy images appear, and nether head nor feet fit their respective forms.
Beware of attempting anything (in literary composition) for which nature has not gifted you—i.e., against the grain.