1,095 Quotes by Horace

By the favour of the heavens.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth’s fruits.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men’s hovels and king’s palaces.

What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror.

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. – Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

This used to be among my prayers – a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

He who sings the praises of his boyhood’s days.