Quotes from Horace

He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Anger is short-lived madness.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Anger is a momentary madness.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Work at it night and day.

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.]

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

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.

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.