1,095 Quotes by Horace

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.