Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Horace Quotes - Page 9

All Quotes Adversity Age Ambition Anger Anxiety Art Atheism Avoiding Birth Brevity Challenges Change Character Choices Country Courage Crime Death Desire Destiny Difficulty Discipline Earth Eating Economy Envy Eternity Evil Excellence Failing Failure Fate Fear Flight Freedom Future Genius Giving Glory Gold Gratitude Greed Grief Guilt Happiness Hardship Hate Heart Heaven Home Honor House Idleness Imagination Injustice Innocence Insanity Inspirational Joy Judging Judgment Justice Knowledge Labor Latin Laughter Laziness Liars Life Literature Love Lying Madness Memories Moderation Money Moon Motivational Mountain Music Nature Opportunity Painting Passion Past Patience Pleasure Poetry Politics Positive Poverty Praise Procrastination Prosperity Purpose Rage Ridicule Running Shame Silence Sin Sleep Sloth Sorrow Soul Sports Spring Study Success Suffering Talent Teaching Time Today Travel Trust Victory Virtue Wall War Water Wealth Weight Loss Wife Wine Wisdom Writing Youth

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

Men, Hands, Tyrants

Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

Gold, Silver, Virtue

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

Patience, Sorrow, May

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

Music, Singing, Want

Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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

Mind, Purpose, Literature

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

Courage, Men, Citizens

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 142-44, Carmina, III. 3. 1, 1922.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Fall, Fate, Light

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Carmina, II. 10. 9, 1922.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Time, Pampering, Youth

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

Limits, Certain, Mediums

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

Care, Take Care, Translate

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

Depressing, Thinking, People

Faults are soon copied.

Faults

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.394, Delphi Classics

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Change, Heart, Adversity

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

Wall, Greed, Want

Leave the rest to the gods.

Literature

Horace (1770). “The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes”, p.21

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

Father, Men, Law

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Acrimony, Settling, Ridicule

"Satires", Book I. 10. 14, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

Running, Attitude, Talking

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

"Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode iii, line 1, c. 23 BC and 13 BC).

Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

Gratitude

Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Courage, Adversity, Heart

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

Mean, Writing, Bears

Don't waste the opportunity.

Latin, Opportunity, Waste

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

Wise, Wisdom, Clever

Epistles bk. 1, no. 18, l. 71

Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

Envy

You May Also Like: