Top 500 Horace Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.”

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

— Horace

453. “If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.”

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454. “The changing year’s successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.”

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

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456. “Believe it, future generations.”

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457. “Most virtue lies between two vices.”

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

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459. “Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.”

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

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

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

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

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464. “If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.”

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465. “It is grievous to be caught.”

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

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

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468. “Live mindful of how brief your life is.”

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

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

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

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472. “An undertaking beset with danger.”

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473. “To drink away sorrow.”

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

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475. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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481. “Nothing is swifter than rumor.”

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

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483. “Anger is a brief lunacy.”

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484. “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.”

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485. “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.”

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486. “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.”

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

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

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489. “Now is the time to drink!”

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

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491. “Dull winter will re-appear.”

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492. “Virtue consists in fleeing vice.”

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

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

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495. “Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.”

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496. “That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.”

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

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498. “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.”

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499. “Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!”

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

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