Quotes from Horace

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.)

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

The appearance of right often leads us wrong.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Whatever advice you give, be short.