1,095 Quotes by Horace

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

Make a good use of the present.

Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.