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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Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Satires (-35)
The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
Happy and thrice happy are they who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day.
Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
The man is either mad or he is making verses.
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
I strike the stars with my sublime head.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Life has given nothing to mortals without great labor.
Satires (-35)
Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (-18)
He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold.
He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dangerous.)
Greece, the captive, made her savage victor captive, and brought the arts into rustic Latium.