Horace Quotes

With you I should love to live with you be ready to die.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

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

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

With silence favor me.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

O imitators, you slavish herd!