Quotes from 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.

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

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.

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

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.

Black care shall be lessened by sweet song.

O sweet and healing medicine of troubles.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.