1,095 Quotes by Horace

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.]

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

I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.

There is a middle ground in things.

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.