Top 500 Horace Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.”

— Horace

202. “There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.”

— Horace

203. “Be smart, drink your wine.”

— Horace

204. “How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.”

— Horace

205. “Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.”

— Horace

206. “Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.”

— Horace

207. “Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

209. “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

210. “There is no retracing our steps.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

216. “The same night awaits us all.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

235. “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.”

— Horace

236. “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.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

249. “To know all things is not permitted.”

— Horace

250. “A crafty knave needs no broker.”

— Horace