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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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
I attend to the business of other people, having lost my own.
What forbids a man to speak the truth in a laughing way?
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
Every man should measure himself by his own standard.
Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.
In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.
Odes (-23)
When you wish to laugh, you shall find me fat and sleek, with well-tended hide, a hog of Epicurus' herd.
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
While we are speaking envious time will have fled. Seize the present day.
He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.
Epistles (-20)
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sires; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy.
This to the right, that to the left hand strays,
And all are wrong, but wrong in different ways.
Satires (-35)
If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured?
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.