Horace Quotes, Latin Quotes

Don't carry logs into the forest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Latin Quotes

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Stars Quotes , Poet Quotes

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Found Quotes

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Punishment Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

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.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Doe Quotes , Different Quotes

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Mountain Quotes , Lightning Quotes

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Carpe Diem Quotes , Green Fields Quotes

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Arrows Quotes , Guilt Quotes

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Men Quotes , Remember Quotes

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Vices Quotes , Embrace Quotes

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Moon Quotes , Fire Quotes

We are all gathered to the same fold.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Brotherhood Quotes

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Music Quotes , Play Quotes

The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Reality Quotes , Order Quotes

Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

To know all things is not permitted.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , All Things Quotes

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Giving Quotes , Propriety Quotes

Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Hours Quotes , Accepting Quotes