Top 500 Horace Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.”

— Horace

452. “Pleasure bought with pain does harm.”

— Horace

453. “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

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

466. “It is grievous to be caught.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

471. “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

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

— Horace

473. “Nothing is swifter than rumor.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

475. “An undertaking beset with danger.”

— Horace

476. “To drink away sorrow.”

— Horace

477. “Now is the time to drink!”

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

483. “Anger is a brief lunacy.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

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.”

— Horace

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.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— 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. “Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.”

— Horace

492. “Dull winter will re-appear.”

— Horace

493. “Virtue consists in fleeing vice.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

495. “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

496. “The bowl dispels corroding cares.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

500. “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