1,095 Quotes by Horace

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.