Quotes from Horace

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Never despair.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.

He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.

Nor does Apollo always stretch the bow.

If you wish me to weep, you yourselfMust first feel grief.

A man without a flaw.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

I am not what I was in the reign of the good Cinara. Forbear, cruel mother of sweet loves.

Grant me, sound of body and of mind, to pass an old age lacking neither honor nor the lyre.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

How comes it, Maecenas, that no man living is content with the lot that either his choice has given him, or chance has thrown in his way, but each has praise for those who follow other paths?

I hate the common herd of men and keep them afar. Let there be sacred silence: I, the Muses' priest, sing for girls and boys songs not heard before.

I shall not wholly die.

O fount Bandusian, more sparkling than glass.

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

O nights and feasts of the gods!

He has defiled his father's grave.