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Top 500 Horace Quotes (2026 Update)
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Horace Quote: “For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.”
Horace Quote: “Life is largely a matter of expectation.”
Horace Quote: “Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.”
Horace Quote: “Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.”
Horace Quote: “Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.”
Horace Quote: “Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.”
Horace Quote: “Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.”
Horace Quote: “We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.”
Horace Quote: “By the favour of the heavens.”
Horace Quote: “Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.”
Horace Quote: “Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?”
Horace Quote: “Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?”
Horace Quote: “It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.”
Horace Quote: “Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.”
Horace Quote: “The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.”
Horace Quote: “Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.”
Horace Quote: “In the word of no master am I bound to believe.”
Horace Quote: “A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.”
Horace Quote: “Books have their destinies.”

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Horace Quote: “You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.”
Horace Quote: “Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.”
Horace Quote: “Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.”
Horace Quote: “What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature’s bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?”
Horace Quote: “Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.”
Horace Quote: “The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.”
Horace Quote: “Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.”
Horace Quote: “Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.”
Horace Quote: “The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.”
Horace Quote: “In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.”
Horace Quote: “Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.”
Horace Quote: “Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.”
Horace Quote: “Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.”
Horace Quote: “I shall not completely die.”
Horace Quote: “Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.”
Horace Quote: “Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.”
Horace Quote: “Busy idleness urges us on.”
Horace Quote: “A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.”
Horace Quote: “Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.”
Horace Quote: “How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!”
Horace Quote: “Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.”
Horace Quote: “Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.”
Horace Quote: “In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.”
Horace Quote: “At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.”
Horace Quote: “Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?”
Horace Quote: “Tear thyself from delay.”
Horace Quote: “A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.”
Horace Quote: “Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one’s abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.”
Horace Quote: “The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.”
Horace Quote: “One Sallow does not make Summer.”
Horace Quote: “It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.”
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