1,095 Quotes by Horace

Luck cannot change birth.

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

A poem is like a painting.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.