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Horace Quotes - Page 17

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Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

Moving, Justice, Wicked

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

Travel, Happy Life, Sea

"Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

Men, Opinion, Fine

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 569-70, Epistles, II. 2. 58, 1922.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Anger, Men, Literature

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

Track, Lame, Legs

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Ocean, Heart, Firsts

Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.5

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Death, Running, Law

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

Fire, Fields, Ferns

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Cutting, Failing, Knots

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

Thieves, Poor, Owners

Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

Thinking, Years, Heaven

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

Humor, Matter, Jest

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

Envy, Competition, Crow

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Literature, Sullen, Modesty

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

Wall, Faults, Sides

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

Eagles, Fierce, Dove

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

Safety, May, Moments

Horace (1872). “The Odes and Epodes of Horace”, p.170

Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

Gambling, Soul, Venture

If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

Dresses, Fine, Ifs

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

Use, Poverty, Poor

What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Men, Faces, Good Sense

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

Rich, Pleasure, Made

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

Men, Duty

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

Evil, Pluck

He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

Mistake, Ridiculous, Same Mistakes

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