1,095 Quotes by Horace

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits,On waking, you'll be tortured by envy or lust.Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, whenIf it's your mind, you put off the cure till next year?Who's started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!

Yet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling carthe obscure no less than the noble.

Quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt?

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

Moreover, you can’t stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truantor fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.But it’s no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels