Quotes from Horace

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

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

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

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.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

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.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

There are as many preferences as there are men.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

No man is born without faults.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.