1,095 Quotes by Horace

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

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

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

Anger is brief madness

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.