Horace Quotes
Horace Quotes
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
2794There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
3377Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)
4081Rule your mind or it will rule you.
4540Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
4549he who is greedy is always in want
4524It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
3656Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.
(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)
2325Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)
4770Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret
(Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back)
4791In love there are two evils: war and peace.
4516Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium
2428Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
2070Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and
whatever days fortune will give, count them
as profit.
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