Quotes from Horace

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.

Anger is a brief madness.

Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

Drawing is the true test of art.

Every old poem is sacred.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that Fate allows you.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

He who is greedy is always in want.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Busy idleness urges us on