Top 500 Horace Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Live mindful of how brief your life is.”

— Horace

452. “There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.”

— Horace

453. “Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.”

— Horace

454. “The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.”

— Horace

455. “Now is the time to drink!”

— Horace

456. “Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.”

— Horace

457. “Envy is not to be conquered but by death.”

— Horace

458. “All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.”

— Horace

459. “Most virtue lies between two vices.”

— Horace

460. “Nothing is swifter than rumor.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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463. “It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

465. “She – philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.”

— Horace

466. “Pleasure bought with pain does harm.”

— Horace

467. “Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.”

— Horace

468. “The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.”

— Horace

469. “It is grievous to be caught.”

— Horace

470. “A person will gain everyone’s approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.”

— Horace

471. “Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.”

— Horace

472. “That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.”

— Horace

473. “There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.”

— Horace

474. “Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.”

— Horace

475. “The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.”

— Horace

476. “Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.”

— Horace

477. “And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.”

— Horace

478. “The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.”

— Horace

479. “Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.”

— Horace

480. “As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.”

— Horace

481. “An undertaking beset with danger.”

— Horace

482. “The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.”

— Horace

483. “Even virtue followed beyond reason’s rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.”

— Horace

484. “Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.”

— Horace

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485. “One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.”

— Horace

486. “Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.”

— Horace

487. “If you wish people to weep, you must weep first.”

— Horace

488. “When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?”

— Horace

489. “Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.”

— Horace

490. “Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.”

— Horace

491. “It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.”

— Horace

492. “Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life’s ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.”

— Horace

493. “He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.”

— Horace

494. “What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.”

— Horace

495. “Anger is a brief lunacy.”

— Horace

496. “Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.”

— Horace

497. “Make a good use of the present.”

— Horace

498. “Dull winter will re-appear.”

— Horace

499. “There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.”

— Horace

500. “Virtue consists in fleeing vice.”

— Horace