Horace Quotes

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

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

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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

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Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

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Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

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The grammarians are arguing.

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Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

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She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

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An undertaking beset with danger.

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Get money first; virtue comes after.

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

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Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

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Mistakes are their own instructors

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

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Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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