1,095 Quotes by Horace

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

Believe it, future generations.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]