Horace Quotes

Believe it, future generations.

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

One Sallow does not make Summer.

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

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.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

Take heed lest you stumble.

The covetous are always in want.

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

Hatched in the same nest.

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

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.

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

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

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

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

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

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!

Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour.

It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.