Top 500 Horace Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.”

— Horace

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102. “In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.”

— Horace

103. “Either stick to tradition or see that your inventions be consistent.”

— Horace

104. “The words can not return.”

— Horace

105. “He is not poor who has a competency.”

— Horace

106. “Work at it night and day.”

— Horace

107. “Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.”

— Horace

108. “Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.”

— Horace

109. “They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.”

— Horace

110. “Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.”

— Horace

111. “Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.”

— Horace

112. “In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.”

— Horace

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113. “The covetous man is ever in want.”

— Horace

114. “Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”

— Horace

115. “I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.”

— Horace

116. “He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.”

— Horace

117. “I strive to be brief, and become obscure.”

— Horace

118. “The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.”

— Horace

119. “Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.”

— Horace

120. “The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.”

— Horace

121. “You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.”

— Horace

122. “Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.”

— Horace

123. “Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.”

— Horace

124. “It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.”

— Horace

125. “I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.”

— Horace

126. “Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.”

— Horace

127. “Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.”

— Horace

128. “Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”

— Horace

129. “The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.”

— Horace

130. “He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.”

— Horace

131. “He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.”

— Horace

132. “To teach is to delight.”

— Horace

133. “Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.”

— Horace

134. “The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.”

— Horace

135. “The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.”

— Horace

136. “Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate’er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.”

— Horace

137. “My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.”

— Horace

138. “Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.”

— Horace

139. “Leave the rest to the gods.”

— Horace

140. “Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.”

— Horace

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141. “I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.”

— Horace

142. “You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.”

— Horace

143. “The fellow is either a madman or a poet.”

— Horace

144. “I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.”

— Horace

145. “Quae caret ora cruore nostro?”

— Horace

146. “Nature is harmony in discord.”

— Horace

147. “Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.”

— Horace

148. “Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.”

— Horace

149. “I court not the votes of the fickle mob.”

— Horace

150. “A man of refined taste and judgment.”

— Horace