1,095 Quotes by Horace

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Work at it night and day.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Wisdom at times is found in folly.