1,095 Quotes by Horace

Finally we have a victory, not only morally but also in a material sense,

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.