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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- Satirists
Also known as: Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Let me have a three-legged table, a dish of salt, and a cloak which, altho' coarse, will keep off the cold.
There is a mean in all things; and, moreover, certain limits on either side of which right cannot be found.
The muse does not allow the praise-deserving hero to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide,—...a hog from Epicurus' herd.
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is able to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances.
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee off the stage.
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.