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.
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Also known as: Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
Epistles (-20)
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour.
A vase is begun; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher?
He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
Enjoy the present smiling hour,
And put it out of Fortune's power.
Odes (-23)
What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.
Epistles (-20)
People are enticed by a desire which continually cheats them.
‘Nothing is enough,’ they say, ‘for you’re only worth what you have.’
Satires (-35)
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Epistles (-20)
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Satires (-35)
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Epistles (-20)
He pulls down, he builds up, he changes squares into circles.
Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.
Odes (-23)
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.
Sky, not spirit, do they change, those who cross the sea.
Epistles (-20)