Top 500 Horace Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.”

— Horace

302. “Let Apella the Jew believe it.”

— Horace

303. “Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.”

— Horace

304. “Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.”

— Horace

305. “If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.”

— Horace

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

— Horace

307. “Mistakes are their own instructors.”

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308. “The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.”

— Horace

309. “You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.”

— Horace

310. “Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.”

— Horace

311. “There are as many preferences as there are men.”

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312. “Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.”

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313. “Anger is short-lived madness.”

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314. “O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.”

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315. “Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!”

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316. “Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.”

— Horace

317. “Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.”

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318. “No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.”

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319. “Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.”

— Horace

320. “Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.”

— Horace

321. “By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!”

— Horace

322. “Take too much pleasure in good things, you’ll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.”

— Horace

323. “What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.”

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324. “Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.”

— Horace

325. “Brighter than Parian marble.”

— Horace

326. “When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.”

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327. “Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.”

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328. “Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.”

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329. “Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.”

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330. “Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.”

— Horace

331. “Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.”

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332. “Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.”

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333. “It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.”

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334. “A good resolve will make any port.”

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335. “The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.”

— Horace

336. “Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.”

— Horace

337. “Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.”

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338. “Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.”

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339. “Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start.”

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340. “There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.”

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341. “You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.”

— Horace

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342. “Those who want much, are always much in need.”

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343. “A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.”

— Horace

344. “A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.”

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345. “Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.”

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346. “He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.”

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347. “To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.”

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348. “What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!”

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349. “Drawing is the true test of art.”

— Horace

350. “Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear.”

— Horace