Quotes from Horace

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

One cannot know everything.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

A picture is a poem without words

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

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

Faults are soon copied.

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.