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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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.
The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention.
We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth.
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
'Tis not sufficient to combine
Well-chosen words in a well-ordered line.
Satires (-35)
You may turn nature out of doors with violence, but she will still return.
He has carried every point, who has mingled the useful with the agreeable.
The musician who always makes a mistake on the same string, is laughed at.
The Muse gave the Greeks their native character, and allowed them to speak in noble tones, they who desired nothing but praise.
Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (-18)
One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
Never inquire into another man's secret; but conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both by wine and anger to reveal it.
A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity.
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.