Horace Quotes

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.

I teach that all men are mad.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

In times of stress be bold and valiant.

Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!

Let your poem be kept nine years.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

The story is told of yourself.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

Anger is a short madness.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.

Moreover, you can’t stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truantor fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.But it’s no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels

If matters go badly now they will not always be so.

Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Faults are soon copied.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

He who is greedy is always in want.

No one is content with his own lot.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Whatever advice you give be short.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Better to accept whatever happens.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

he who is greedy is always in want

The man is either mad or he is making verses.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

A picture is a poem without words.

One cannot know everything.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Now is the time to drink!

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.