1,095 Quotes by Horace

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.