1,095 Quotes by Horace

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one’s abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

To grow a philosopher’s beard.

Quae caret ora cruore nostro?

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Deep in the cavern of the infant’s breast; the father’s nature lurks, and lives anew.

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

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.

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men’s names.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.