Quotes from Horace

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

On day is pressed on by another.

Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.