1,095 Quotes by Horace

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.