Quotes from Horace

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

A picture is a poem without words.

Scholars dispute and the case is still before the courts.

We are free to yield to truth.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

But if you name me among the lyric bards, I shall strike the stars with my exalted head.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Sometimes even good old Homer nods.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

It is the mountaintop that the lightning strikes.

In the midst of things.

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.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.