Quotes from Horace

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

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

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

This used to be among my prayers—a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden, and near the house a spring of ever-flowing water, and beyond these a bit of wood.

Happy, thrice happy and more, are they whom an unbroken bond unites and whose love shall know no sundering quarrels so long as they shall live.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers.

I have built a monument more lasting than bronze.

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.

Tomorrow once again we sail the Ocean Sea.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

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

Persian luxury, boy, I hate.

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

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, by any means money.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

We are but dust and shadow.

Harmony in discord.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.