1,095 Quotes by Horace

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

He will be beloved when he is no more.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.