Horace Quotes

Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

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You are judged of by what you possess.

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The covetous man is ever in want.

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You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

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Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

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Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

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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.

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Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

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I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

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A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

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Music is an incitement to love.

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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

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Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

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