Quotes By Horace

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

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

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

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

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

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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

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

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

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

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