Quotes from Horace

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]

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.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Better to accept whatever happens.

Well begun is half done.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He who is greedy is always in want.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

Never despair.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

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

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

I teach that all men are mad.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.