Quotes from Horace

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Let your poem be kept nine years.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

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

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.