314 quotes
As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more.
Odes (-23)
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
Epistles (-20)
Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
It is sweet and honourable to die for one's country.
It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.
Odes (-23)
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
Epistles (-20)
O daughter, more beautiful than thy lovely mother.
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
We are but numbers, born to consume resources.
Epistles (-20)
Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?
Epistles (-20)
You will swim without cork (without help).
All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Epistles (-20)
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.
Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (-18)
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.