Horace Quotes - Page 2

Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits,On waking, you'll be tortured by envy or lust.Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, whenIf it's your mind, you put off the cure till next year?Who's started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.

Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)

Never despair.

Anger is a brief madness.

Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!

Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.

Well begun is half done.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.