1,095 Quotes by Horace

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

What's well begun is half done.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.