1,095 Quotes by Horace

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!