Quotes from Horace

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!

Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

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

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?