Quotes from Horace

In Rome you long for the country; in the country—oh inconstant!—you praise the distant city to the stars.

The limbs of a dismembered poet.

Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

The covetous man is ever in want.

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

Simplicity and charm.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me, in a fine state, fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd.

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

There is measure in all things.

The pure in life and free from sin.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

They change their clime, not their disposition, who run across the sea.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

A grudging and infrequent worshipper of the gods.

As in painting, so in poetry.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.