Horace Quotes

65–8 BC, Italian Poet
quotes
116
topics
12
Topic
“Seize the day.”
Present
“Anger is short madness”
Anger
“Anger is a brief lunacy.”
Anger
“Gold will be slave or master.”
Gold
“I teach that all men are mad.”
Insanity
“We are free to yield to truth.”
Freedom
“A picture is a poem without words.”
Arts and Artists
“Poets wish to profit or to please.”
Poetry and Poets
“Whatever advice you give, be short.”
Advice
“There is nothing assured to mortals.”
Security
“Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.”
Goals
“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”
Expectation
“Life gives nothing to man without labor.”
Labor
“You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.”
Laziness
“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”
Love
“A word once uttered can never be recalled.”
Words
“I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.”
Brevity
“Labor diligently to increase your property.”
Work
“A good scare is worth more than good advice.”
Advice
“Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.”
Beauty
“The man is either mad, or he is making verses.”
Poetry and Poets
“My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.”
Anger
“I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.”
Ambition
“In the word of no master am I bound to believe.”
Independence
“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”
Adversity
“The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.”
Writers and Writing