1,095 Quotes by Horace

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

Hatched in the same nest.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.

Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.

Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear.

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