Top 500 Horace Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.”

— Horace

202. “Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.”

— Horace

203. “My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.”

— Horace

204. “There is no retracing our steps.”

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205. “Those who covet much suffer from the want.”

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206. “Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.”

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207. “What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?”

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208. “Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth’s fruits.”

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209. “Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.”

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210. “The same night awaits us all.”

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211. “Your property is in danger when your neighbour’s house is on fire.”

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212. “It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.”

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213. “People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.”

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214. “Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. – Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.”

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215. “Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.”

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216. “Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.”

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217. “Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.”

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218. “A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.”

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219. “Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.”

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220. “I was what you are, you will be what I am.”

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221. “I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.”

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222. “Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...”

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223. “That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.”

— Horace

224. “Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.”

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225. “It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.”

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226. “There is no such thing as perfect happiness.”

— Horace

227. “There is measure in all things.”

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228. “And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.”

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229. “Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.”

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230. “It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”

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231. “Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.”

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232. “Plant no other tree before the vine.”

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233. “The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.”

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234. “Whatever advice you give, be short.”

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235. “The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.”

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236. “While we’re talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future.”

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237. “I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.”

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238. “This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.”

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239. “The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.”

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240. “Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”

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241. “Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium.”

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242. “He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .”

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243. “No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.”

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244. “One night awaits all, and death’s path must be trodden once and for all.”

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245. “Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.”

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246. “Don’t long for the unripe grape.”

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247. “As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.”

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248. “The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.”

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249. “Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.”

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250. “Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.”

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