Quotes by Horace

"A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient."

Horace on justice
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

Horace on knowledge   

"Life gives nothing to man without labor."

Horace on labor
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"You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren."

Horace on laziness   

"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."

Horace on life   

"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world."

Horace on life
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"The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do."

Horace on anger   

"Anger is a brief lunacy."

Horace on anger
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"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

Horace on anger
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"Anger is short madness"

Horace on anger
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"My liver swells with bile difficult to repress."

Horace on anger   

"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."

Horace on love
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"Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even."

Horace on mind
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"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."

Horace on moderation   

"Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person"

Horace on modesty   

"Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?"

Horace on money   

"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."

Horace on nature   

"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames."

Horace on neighbors   

"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire."

Horace on neighbors   

"Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day."

Horace on opportunity   

"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."

Horace on past   

"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country."

Horace on patriotism   

"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

Horace on people
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"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."

Horace on people   

"Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?"

Horace on persuasion   

"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

Horace on poetry and poets   

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers."

Horace on poetry and poets   

"Every old poem is sacred."

Horace on poetry and poets   

"Poets wish to profit or to please."

Horace on poetry and poets   

"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water."

Horace on poetry and poets   

"A picture is a poem without words."

Horace on art   

"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions."

Horace on politics   

"How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?"

Horace on praise   

"Believe that each day that shines on you is your last."

Horace on present
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"Seize the day."

Horace on present   

"Tear thyself from delay."

Horace on procrastination
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"Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free."

Horace on punishment   

"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."

Horace on risk   

"There is nothing assured to mortals."

Horace on security   

"This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist."

Horace on song and singing