Top 500 Horace Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.”

— Horace

402. “The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat.”

— Horace

403. “It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.”

— Horace

404. “Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.”

— Horace

405. “Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.”

— Horace

406. “Words challenge eternity.”

— Horace

407. “He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, “I have lived.” Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.”

— Horace

408. “Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.”

— Horace

409. “Victory is by nature superb and insulting.”

— Horace

410. “Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.”

— Horace

411. “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

412. “The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.”

— Horace

413. “Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men’s names.”

— Horace

414. “Punishment follows close on crime.”

— Horace

415. “Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.”

— Horace

416. “In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.”

— Horace

417. “Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?”

— Horace

418. “The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.”

— Horace

419. “The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.”

— Horace

420. “Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.”

— Horace

421. “We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.”

— Horace

422. “There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.”

— Horace

423. “It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.”

— Horace

424. “Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.”

— Horace

425. “Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.”

— Horace

426. “Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.”

— Horace

427. “Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.”

— Horace

428. “He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.”

— Horace

429. “Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.”

— Horace

430. “Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.”

— Horace

431. “Riches either serve or govern the possessor.”

— Horace

432. “There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.”

— Horace

433. “God has joined the innocent with the guilty.”

— Horace

434. “Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle’s prompting no one is lost for words, no one who’s cramped by poverty fails to find release.”

— Horace

435. “Wine unlocks the breast.”

— Horace

436. “Frugality is one thing, avarice another.”

— Horace

437. “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

438. “Take heed lest you stumble.”

— Horace

439. “What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.”

— Horace

440. “The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.”

— Horace

441. “When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.”

— Horace

442. “Pleasure bought with pain does harm.”

— Horace

443. “Nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.”

— Horace

444. “The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.”

— Horace

445. “All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.”

— Horace

446. “Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.”

— Horace

447. “It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.”

— Horace

448. “He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.”

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449. “Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.”

— Horace

450. “Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.”

— Horace