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Horace [-65--8] Roman

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.		101
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.		102
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.		103
Fidelity is the sister of justice.		104
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.	Life	105
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.		106
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.		107
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.	Future	108
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.		109
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.	Brainy, Success	110
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.	Experience	111
The pen is the tongue of the mind.	Communication	112
Don't think, just do.	Motivational	113
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.	Great	114
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.	Moving On	115
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.		116
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.	Life	117
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.	Trust	118
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.	Death	119
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.	Courage	120
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.		121
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.	Anger	122
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.	Happiness	123
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.		124
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.	Work	125
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.		126
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.	Change, Wisdom	201
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.		202
A picture is a poem without words.	Art	203
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.	Trust	204
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.		205
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.		206
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.		207
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.		208
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.		209
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.		210
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.	Sad	211
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.		212
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.	Death	213
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.		214
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.	Anger	215
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.		216
O imitators, you slavish herd!		217
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?		218
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.		219
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.		220
Anger is a short madness.	Anger	221
Life is largely a matter of expectation.	Life	222
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.		223
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.		224
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.	Alone, Wisdom	225
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.		226
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.		301
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.		302
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.		303
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.		304
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.		305
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.	Dad	306
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.		307
A word once uttered can never be recalled.		308
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.		309
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.		310
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.		311
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.		312
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.	Knowledge	313
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.		314
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.		315
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.		316
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.		317
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.		318
Whatever advice you give, be short.		319
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.		320
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.		321
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.		322
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.		323
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.		324
Poets wish to profit or to please.		325
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.		326
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.		401
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.		402
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.	Poetry	403
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.		404
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.		405
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.		406
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.		407
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.		408
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.	Travel	409
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.		410
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.		411
Leave the rest to the gods.		412
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.		413
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.		414
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.		415
We are free to yield to truth.		416
I teach that all men are mad.		417
Every old poem is sacred.		418
Make a good use of the present.		419
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.		420
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.		421
Labor diligently to increase your property.		422
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.		423
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.		424
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.		425
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.		426
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.		501
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.		502
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?		503
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.		504
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.		505

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