1,095 Quotes by Horace

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty. [Lat., Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea Virtute me involvo, probamque Pauperiem sine dote quaero.]

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur ignotique sacro.]

Force without judgment falls of its own weight.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.