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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? By Horace
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar? By Horace
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. By Horace
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, ... Live today, tomorrow is not. By Horace
In a long work sleep may be naturally expected. By Horace
A greater liar than the Parthians. By Horace
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? By Horace
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. By Horace
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. By Horace
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. By Horace
Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger. By Horace
There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man. By Horace
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. By Horace
Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand. By Horace
I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods. By Horace
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea. By Horace
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. By Horace
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut. By Horace
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.) By Horace
Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away. By Horace
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. By Horace
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.[Lat., HoraeMomento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] By Horace
Nothing is achieved without toil. By Horace
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. By Horace
I am doubting what to do. By Horace
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum? By Horace
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. By Horace
Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith By Horace
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. By Horace
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent. By Horace
The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn. By Horace
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home. By Horace
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. By Horace
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?[Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?] By Horace
Summer treads on heels of spring. By Horace
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes. By Horace
Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands. By Horace
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea. By Horace
Better wilt thou live ... by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms. By Horace
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. By Horace
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine. By Horace
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches. By Horace
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. By Horace
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. By Horace
Victory is by nature superb and insulting. By Horace
Hatched in the same nest. By Horace
Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it. By Horace
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. By Horace
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. By Horace
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. By Horace
Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace. By Horace
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.] By Horace
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing. By Horace
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.[Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.] By Horace
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? By Horace
When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure. By Horace
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts. By Horace
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.] By Horace
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest. By Horace
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. By Horace
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. By Horace
Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium By Horace
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance. By Horace
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. By Horace
What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled. By Horace
A word once uttered can never be recalled. By Horace
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.[Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.] By Horace
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? By Horace
In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity. By Horace
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!"). By Horace
Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.) By Horace
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. By Horace
In giving advice I advise you, be short. By Horace
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. By Horace
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood. By Horace
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with. By Horace
As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow. By Horace
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money. By Horace
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. By Horace
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. By Horace
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. By Horace
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. By Horace
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it. By Horace
Let's put a limit to the scramble for money ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end. By Horace
To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way. By Horace
We are all gathered to the same fold. By Horace
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. By Horace
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. By Horace
Nothing is swifter than rumor. By Horace
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. By Horace
Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror By Horace
Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn.[Lat., Neque semper arcumTendit Apollo.] By Horace
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment. By Horace
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. By Horace
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. By Horace
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.] By Horace
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel. By Horace
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? By Horace
Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. By Horace
Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown? By Horace
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. By Horace
The fellow is either a madman or a poet. By Horace
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.[Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.] By Horace
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. By Horace
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. By Horace
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. By Horace
The man is either mad or his is making verses.[Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.] By Horace
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough. By Horace
Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb. By Horace
I shall not wholly die and a great part of me will escape the grave By Horace
Carpe diem."(Odes: I.11) By Horace
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow. By Horace
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.) By Horace
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit. By Horace
carpe diem (seize the day)Enjoy! Enjoy! By Horace
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. By Horace
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine. By Horace
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune. By Horace
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. By Horace
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation. By Horace
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.] By Horace
He tells old wives' tales much to the point. By Horace
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it. By Horace
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. By Horace
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts. By Horace
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it By Horace
In adversity remember to keep an even mind. By Horace
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. By Horace
Remember to be calm in adversity. By Horace
A good resolve will make any port. By Horace
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity. By Horace
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. By Horace
Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain. By Horace
Whatever advice you give, be short. By Horace
If a better system is thine, impart it if not, make use of mine. By Horace
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. By Horace
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? By Horace
Tear thyself from delay. By Horace
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. By Horace
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected. By Horace
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. By Horace
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever. By Horace
Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done. By Horace
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while. By Horace
I strive to be brief but I become obscure. By Horace
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. By Horace
Yet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling carthe obscure no less than the noble. By Horace
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. By Horace
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original. By Horace
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. By Horace
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned. By Horace
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. By Horace
Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear. By Horace
The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes. By Horace
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed By Horace
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. By Horace
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] By Horace
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. By Horace
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more. By Horace
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. By Horace
In love there are two evils: war and peace. By Horace
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. By Horace
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old. By Horace
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear. By Horace
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. By Horace
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. By Horace
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. By Horace
If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice. By Horace
His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour. By Horace
Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,Nor men the weak anxieties of age. By Horace
What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? By Horace
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. By Horace
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. By Horace
It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor. By Horace
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice,Who ventures life and soul upon the dice. By Horace
Force without reason falls of its own weight. By Horace
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence? By Horace
Limbs of a dismembered poet. By Horace
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.[Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiaeCelata virtus.] By Horace
Drawing is the true test of art. By Horace
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself. By Horace
Never without a shilling in my purse. By Horace
The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.[Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.] By Horace
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. By Horace
Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect. By Horace
Who guides below, and rules above,The great disposer, and the mighty king;Than He none greater, next Him none,That can be, is, or was. By Horace
To grow a philosopher's beard. By Horace
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. By Horace
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. By Horace
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers. By Horace
The gods my protectors.[Lat., Di me tuentur.] By Horace
Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas") By Horace
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on. By Horace
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs. By Horace
The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. By Horace
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? By Horace
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean. By Horace
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses. By Horace
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back. By Horace
In the word of no master am I bound to believe. By Horace
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. By Horace
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own. By Horace
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning. By Horace
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded. By Horace
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew. By Horace
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves. By Horace
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me. By Horace
Even as we speak, time speeds swiftly away. By Horace
By wine eating cares are put to flight.[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.] By Horace
Now drown care in wine.[Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.] By Horace
When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously. By Horace
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. By Horace
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches. By Horace
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. By Horace
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. By Horace
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. By Horace
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off. By Horace
It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will. By Horace
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me. By Horace
He is always a slave who cannot live on little. By Horace
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. By Horace
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. By Horace
Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow. By Horace
Now is the time to drink! By Horace
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.[Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.] By Horace
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot. By Horace
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. By Horace
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. By Horace
Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow. By Horace
It is sweet and honorable to die for your country. By Horace
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem. By Horace
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last. By Horace
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. By Horace
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! By Horace
Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future. By Horace
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. By Horace
Live mindful of how brief your life is. By Horace
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. By Horace
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] By Horace
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs. By Horace
False praise can please, and calumny affrightNone but the vicious, and the hypocrite. By Horace
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. By Horace
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. By Horace
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. By Horace
Strength without judgment falls by its own weight. By Horace
The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget. By Horace
Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.(Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born) By Horace
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze. By Horace
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. By Horace
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ? By Horace
Quid rides? Mutato nomine et de te fabula narrator. [Why do you laugh ? Change only the name and this story is about you.] By Horace
A man of refined taste and judgment. By Horace
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. By Horace
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them. By Horace
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. By Horace
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. By Horace
No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers By Horace
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. By Horace
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. By Horace
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden. By Horace
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again. By Horace
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour. By Horace
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. By Horace
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. By Horace
Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty. By Horace
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much. By Horace
Those who covet much suffer from the want. By Horace
If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more. By Horace
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. By Horace
What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face? By Horace
What has not wasting time impaired? By Horace
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. By Horace
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. By Horace
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] By Horace
Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise. By Horace
In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.[Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.] By Horace
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. By Horace
Mistakes are their own instructors By Horace
Treacherous ashes hideThe fires through which you stride By Horace
The same night awaits us all. By Horace
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable. By Horace
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.[Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.] By Horace
O imitators, you slavish herd! By Horace
he who is greedy is always in want By Horace
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. By Horace
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others. By Horace
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain. By Horace
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. By Horace
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men. By Horace
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. By Horace
Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings. By Horace
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. By Horace
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. By Horace
From the egg to the apple. By Horace
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. By Horace
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start By Horace
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. By Horace
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. By Horace
As shines the moon amid the lesser fires. By Horace
Why do you laugh? Change the name and the story is about you By Horace
Better to accept whatever happens. By Horace
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind. By Horace
There is a middle ground in things. By Horace
Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent?[Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.] By Horace
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. By Horace
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances.[Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.] By Horace
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. By Horace
There are as many preferences as there are men. By Horace
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] By Horace
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. By Horace
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds;High towers fall with a heavier crash;And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. By Horace
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance. By Horace
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living. By Horace
He that cuts off twenty years of lifeCuts off so many years of fearing death. By Horace
God has joined the innocent with the guilty. By Horace
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise. By Horace
Being, be bold and venture to be wise. By Horace
The words can not return. By Horace
In times of stress, be bold and valiant. By Horace
He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth. By Horace
One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.[Lat., Omnes una manet nox,Et calcanda semel via leti.] By Horace
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave. By Horace
What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir. By Horace
The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth. By Horace
No, but you're wrong now, and always will be. By Horace
Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? By Horace
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. By Horace
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born. By Horace
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. By Horace
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. By Horace
Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help. By Horace
The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,A dis plura feret.] By Horace
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you. By Horace
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were. By Horace
I strive to be brief, and become obscure. By Horace
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity. By Horace
Let Apella the Jew believe it. By Horace
The glory is for those who deserve. By Horace
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. By Horace
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid. By Horace
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed. By Horace
Work at it night and day. By Horace
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel. By Horace
You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain. By Horace
Poets, the first instructors of mankind,Brought all things to the proper native use. By Horace
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. By Horace
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant. By Horace
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow. By Horace
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. By Horace
Pleasure bought with pain does harm. By Horace
He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.] By Horace
When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars,And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars. By Horace
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. By Horace
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia. By Horace
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him. By Horace
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. By Horace
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it. By Horace
A man polished to the nail.[Lat., Ad unguem factus home.] By Horace
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear. By Horace
The man is either mad, or he is making verses. By Horace
The mob will now and then see things in a right light. By Horace
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. By Horace
There is no such thing as perfect happiness. By Horace
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. By Horace
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. By Horace
Every man should measure himself by his own standard.[Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.] By Horace
There is nothing assured to mortals. By Horace
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. By Horace
Plant no other tree before the vine. By Horace
God made not pleasures for the rich alone. By Horace
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously. By Horace
To please great men is not the last degree of praise. By Horace
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. By Horace
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. By Horace
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. By Horace
Mingle a dash of folly with your wisdom. By Horace
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling. By Horace
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire. By Horace
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. By Horace
One cannot know everything. By Horace
Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause. By Horace
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. By Horace
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still. By Horace
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. By Horace
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature. By Horace
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. By Horace
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many? By Horace
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand. By Horace
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more. By Horace
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters. By Horace
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. By Horace
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. By Horace
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments. By Horace
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth. By Horace
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. By Horace
If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine. By Horace
If you wish people to weep, you must weep first. By Horace
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear. By Horace
Luck cannot change birth. By Horace
He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish. By Horace
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. By Horace
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. By Horace
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. By Horace
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist. By Horace
Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for. By Horace
Busy idleness urges us on.[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.] By Horace
If you wish me to weep, you yourselfMust first feel grief. By Horace
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. By Horace
Don't carry logs into the forest. By Horace
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist. By Horace
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place. By Horace
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. By Horace
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. By Horace
Surely a Man may speak Truth with a smiling countenance. By Horace
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. By Horace
Those who want much, are always much in need. By Horace
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness. By Horace
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry. By Horace
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. By Horace
It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting. By Horace
Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.) By Horace
Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future. By Horace
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention.[Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.] By Horace
All powerful money gives birth and beauty.[Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.] By Horace
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune. By Horace
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. By Horace
I have completed a monument more lasting than brass. By Horace
The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter. By Horace
Labor diligently to increase your property. By Horace
Humour is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues. By Horace
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. By Horace
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. By Horace
Anger is a brief madness. By Horace
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits. By Horace
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. By Horace
The good hate sin because they love virtue.[Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.] By Horace
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true By Horace
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can. By Horace
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. By Horace
Fidelity is the sister of justice. By Horace
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year.[Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] By Horace
One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all. By Horace
We are free to yield to truth. By Horace
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends! By Horace
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority. By Horace
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life! By Horace
Poets wish to profit or to please. By Horace
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. By Horace
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.[Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.] By Horace
To teach is to delight. By Horace
With equal pace, impartial FateKnocks at the palace, as the cottage gate. By Horace
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble. By Horace
Leave the rest to the gods. By Horace
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. By Horace
The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.[Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.] By Horace
A man perfect to the finger tips. By Horace
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. By Horace
No man is born without faults. By Horace
Every old poem is sacred. By Horace
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. By Horace
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. By Horace
At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome. By Horace
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year. By Horace
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. By Horace
Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.) By Horace
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. By Horace
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth. By Horace
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. By Horace
Don't waste the opportunity. By Horace
I want to live, and die with you. By Horace
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. By Horace
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. By Horace
In trying to be concise I become obscure. By Horace
If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back. By Horace
[So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. By Horace
This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist. By Horace
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest. By Horace
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! By Horace
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him. By Horace
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass. By Horace
Half is done when the beginning is done. By Horace
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. By Horace
He is not poor who has a competency. By Horace
Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you. By Horace
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] By Horace
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools. By Horace
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. By Horace
Wisdom at times is found in folly. By Horace
Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares. By Horace
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future By Horace
Who has self-confidence will lead the rest. By Horace
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. By Horace
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. By Horace
Riches either serve or govern the possessor. By Horace
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. By Horace
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. By Horace
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. By Horace
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. By Horace
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded. By Horace
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits. By Horace
He can afford to be a fool. By Horace
Nature is harmony in discord. By Horace
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. By Horace
If you can realistically rendera cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to painta sailor in the midst of a shipwreck? By Horace
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance. By Horace
It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically. By Horace
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. By Horace
I teach that all men are mad. By Horace
A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried. By Horace
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. By Horace
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. By Horace
You are judged of by what you possess. By Horace
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest. By Horace
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things.[Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.] By Horace
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. By Horace
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. By Horace
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. By Horace
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape. By Horace
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. By Horace
He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point . By Horace
There is no retracing our steps. By Horace
The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke. By Horace
Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear. By Horace
The man is either crazy or he is a poet. By Horace
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds. By Horace
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. By Horace
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. By Horace
To know all things is not permitted. By Horace
Let your poem be kept nine years. By Horace
This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden By Horace
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. By Horace
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. By Horace
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. By Horace
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. By Horace
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter. By Horace
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. By Horace
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress. By Horace
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires. By Horace