Quotes from Horace

The half of my own soul.

From the egg.

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

We are all driven into the same fold.

It is not everyone that can get to Corinth.

Anger is short-lived madness.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

Skilled in the works of both languages.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.

Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)

Faults are soon copied.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man?s door, Embittering all his state.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.