1,095 Quotes by Horace

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

It is grievous to be caught.

Force without reason falls of its own weight.