Quotes by Horace
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
I teach that all men are mad.
Leave the rest to the gods.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
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.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
A picture is a poem without words.
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
We are free to yield to truth.
