1,095 Quotes by Horace

A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]