1,095 Quotes by Horace

Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.

We get blows and return them.

Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.