1,095 Quotes by Horace

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

A greater liar than the Parthians.

To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.