1,095 Quotes by Horace

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]