1,095 Quotes by Horace

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death. [Lat., Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui Deorum Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque callet pauperiem pati, Pejusque leto flagitium timet.]

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.