Horace Quotes

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

Anger is a short madness.

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Anger is a brief madness.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

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

Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.