Quotes By Horace

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Every old poem is sacred.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

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

A picture is a poem without words.

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

Don't think, just do.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

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

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.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

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

O imitators, you slavish herd!

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