Horace Quotes

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Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate allows you.
- Horace

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In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
- Horace

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Nothings beautiful from every point of view.
- Horace

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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
- Horace

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They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
- Horace

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
- Horace

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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
- Horace

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With silence favor me.
- Horace

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
- Horace

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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
- Horace

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Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
- Horace

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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
- Horace

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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
- Horace

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Busy idleness urges us on.
- Horace

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Never despair.
- Horace

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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
- Horace

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
- Horace

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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

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Your own property is concerned when your neighbor’s house is on fire.
- Horace

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Whatever advice you give, be brief.
- Horace

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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
- Horace

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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
- Horace

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Anger is a short madness.
- Horace

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Money is a handmaiden if thou know est how to use it; a mistress if thou know est not.
- Horace

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace