Horace

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

If a mans fortune does not fit him it is like the shoe in the story if too large it trips him up if too small it pinches him.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

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

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

He who is greedy is always in want

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

We are free to yield to truth.

Every old poem is sacred.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

It is courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

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

The clown waits for the river to run itself dry

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring and whatever days fortune will give count them as profit.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

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 is delightful to play the fool.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

He who sings the praises of his boyhoods days.

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

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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

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

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.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

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

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

He paints a dolphin in the woods a boar in the waves.

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

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

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life and who content with his life can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

I teach that all men are mad.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

Once a word has been allowed to escape it cannot be recalled.

Nothing is swifter than rumor.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father will be the most daring in deceiving others.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

A crafty knave needs no broker.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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.

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

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

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Don't think, just do.

Carpe diem Rejoice while you are alive enjoy the day live life to the fullest make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Small things become small folks.

The stingy are always in need.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Begin be bold and venture to be wise.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

Laugh and the world laughs with you cry and you cry alone.

The ridiculous is more easily retained than the admirable.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.