1,095 Quotes by Horace

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed

He is not poor who has a competency.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.