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
- Poets
- Satirists
Also known as: Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.
Odes (-23)
At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.
Epistles (-20)
He will always be a slave, who does not know how to live upon a little.
In the hour's short space comes swift death, or joyful victory.
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio.
Epistles (-20)
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Odes (-23)
Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Epistles (-20)
You are dealing with a work full of dangerous hazard, and you are venturing upon fires overlaid with treacherous ashes.
The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again.
With what knot shall I hold this Proteus, who so often changes his countenance?