Amazing Horace Quotes

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Horace Quotes about Life

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?

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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

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Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.

Horace Quotes about Love

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace Quotes on Adversity

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

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

Horace Quotes on Death

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.

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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men’s hovels and king’s palaces.

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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Horace Quotes about Art

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

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A picture is a poem without words

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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

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Every old poem is sacred.

Horace Quotes about Wine

Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle’s prompting no one is lost for words, no one who’s cramped by poverty fails to find release.

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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

Horace Quotes on Poetry

That I make poetry and give pleasure – if I give pleasure – are because of you.

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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

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A picture is a poem without words

Horace Quotes about Success

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

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

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?

Horace Quotes about Writing

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

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A picture is a poem without words

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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities.

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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Horace Quotes on Liars

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

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A greater liar than the Parthians.

Horace Motivational Quotes

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one’s abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

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Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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

Horace Quotes on Imagination

Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

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He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

Inspirational Quotes by Horace

Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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

Horace Quotes About Travel

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace Quotes About War

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

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Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

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In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

Horace Quotes on Opportunity

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

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Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one’s abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

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Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

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

Horace Quotes on Politics

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

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This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

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I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

Horace Quotes about Nature

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

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Nature is harmony in discord.

Horace Quotes about Money

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

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He who is greedy is always in want.

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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.

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Get money first; virtue comes after.

Horace Quotes on Books

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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Books have their destinies.

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Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

Horace Quotes on Happiness

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

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Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

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You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Horace Quotes about Failure

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

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

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

Horace Quotes Life to the fullest

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Horace Quotes about Heaven

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

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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 shine, the 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.

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Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.