Horace Quotes

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental moral and spiritual asphyxiation and sometimes death death to energy and all growth.

I am in a moment of pretty wellness.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Well begun is half done.

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

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

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Anger is a brief madness.

Better to accept whatever happens.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

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

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

The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

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

I have been crying, " she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

It is good to have things that money can buy but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

One cannot know everything.

In times of stress be bold and valiant.

Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.

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

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

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