Quotes from Horace

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Leave all else to the gods.

O fairer daughter of a fair mother!

Taught or untaught, we all scribble poetry.

He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

Let a play have five acts, neither more nor less.

Life's brief span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.

Turn the pages of your Greek models night and day.

Foot-and-a-half-long words.

You ask me why a soft numbness diffuses all my inmost senses with deep oblivion, as though with thirsty throat I'd drained the cup that brings the sleep of Lethe.

The centuries roll back to the ancient age of gold.

And all that tribe.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Gloriously perjured, a maiden famous to all time.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Barefaced poverty drove me to writing verses.

A praiser of past time.

I would not have borne this in my hot youth when Plancus was consul.

The people are a many-headed beast.

The story's about you.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Anger is a short madness.

No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.