Horace Quotes

Quintus Horatius Flaccus known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words." ...more

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

Topic(s):

He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.[Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

Topic(s): Change , Despise

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Topic(s): Mind , Eye , Ears

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

Topic(s): Pleasure , Eating , Sauce

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

Topic(s): Play , Fool , Latin

On day is pressed on by another.

Topic(s): Time

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

Topic(s): Different , Left , Errors

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

Topic(s): Men , Duty

I shall not altogether die.

Topic(s): Dies , Death

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

Topic(s): Mind , Art , Secret

What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Topic(s): Men , Faces , Good Sense

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