Quotes by Horace

About Horace:

Quintus Horatius Flaccus is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
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Anger is a brief madness.

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Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur." If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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he who is greedy is always in want

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Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

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Now is the time to drink!

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In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

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An Widerständen zeigt sich das Genie des Generals, Glück verhüllt es.

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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

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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 itsel...

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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

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

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He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

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Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

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I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

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Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

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

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We are free to yield to truth.

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Author Bio

  • NameHorace
  • DescriptionRoman lyric poet
  • AliasesQuintus Horatius Flaccus
  • BornDecember 8, 65 BCE
  • DiedNovember 27, 8 BCE
  • CountryAncient Rome
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer
  • WorksArs Poetica