Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Horace
Horace Quotes
222 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
There is a mean in things, fixed limits on either side of which right living cannot get a foothold.
Horace
Source
Report...
Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.
Horace
Source
Report...
Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.
Horace
Source
Report...
Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
Nor men the weak anxieties of age.
Horace
Source
Report...
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
Horace
Source
Report...
With my head exalted I shall touch the stars.
Horace
Source
Report...
What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.
Horace
Source
Report...
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
Horace
Source
Report...
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.]
Horace
Source
Report...
You should turn the pages of your Greek models by night and by day.
Horace
Source
Report...
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
Horace
Source
Report...
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
Horace
Source
Report...
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace
Source
Report...
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
Horace
Source
Report...
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
Horace
Source
Report...
No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.
Horace
Source
Report...
None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.
Horace
Source
Report...
His thinking does not produce smoke after the flame, but light after smoke.
Horace
Source
Report...
Scholars dispute, and the case is still before the courts.
Horace
Source
Report...
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.
Horace
Source
Report...
Stop looking for the place where a late rose may yet linger.
Horace
Source
Report...
Struggling to be brief I become obscure.
Horace
Source
Report...
Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.
Horace
Source
Report...
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
Horace
Source
Report...
And yet more bright
Shines out the Julian star,
As moon outglows each lesser light.
[Lat., Micat inter omnes
Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes
Luna minores.]
Horace
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Quote of the day
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Horace
Creative Commons
Bio:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.
Known for:
Satires
Epistles
Ars Poetica
The works of Horace
Most used words:
man
day
time
happy
laugh
poets
mind
pleasure
turn
hour
life
gods
death
praise
lived
Horace on Wikipedia
Horace works on Gutenberg Project
Horace works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
Horace Quotes
Horace Short Quotes
Quotes about Horace
Italian Poet Quotes
Poet Quotes
Related People
Virgil
Roman Poet
Ovid
Roman Poet
Catullus
Roman Poet
Cicero
Roman Philosopher
Juvenal
Italian Poet
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes