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.