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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It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
And what he fears he cannot make attractive with his touch he abandons.
Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (-18)
Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.
Who knows whether the gods will add to-morrow to the present hour?
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; high towers fall with a heavier crash; and the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave.
To your folly add bloodshed, and stir the fire with the sword.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed?
Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immorality?
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.
Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (-18)
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain is injurious.
Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods.
For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
What is to prevent one from telling truth as he laughs, even as teachers sometimes give cookies to children to coax them into learning their A B C?
Satires (-35)