110+ Horace Quotes On Augustus, Education And Inspirational

Roman Poet Horace was an influential lyric poet of ancient Rome, who wrote during the time of Augustus. His works include the Odes, a collection of lyric poems, and the Satires, a collection of poems in the form of dialogues. He is known for his use of the hexameter, a six-foot poetic line, and for his influence on later poets such as John Milton and Alexander Pope. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Horace on love, augustus, education.

Top 10 Horace Quotes

1. Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
2. Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
3. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
4. When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
5. Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)
6. Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
7. Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
8. It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
9. A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
10. Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Horace Image Quotes

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. — Horace

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed. — Horace

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

Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even. — Horace

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. — Horace

Horace Short Quotes

• Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
• Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
• If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.
• A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
• It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
• A picture is a poem without words.
• Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
• Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
• Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
• A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace Quotes About Love

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. — Horace

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living. — Horace

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you. — Horace

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter. — Horace

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? — Horace

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing. — Horace

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. — Horace

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.] — Horace

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind. — Horace

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. — Horace

Horace Quotes About Inspirational

Rule your mind or it will rule you. — Horace

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. — Horace

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. — Horace

Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful. — Horace

Force without reason falls of its own weight. — Horace

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you. — Horace

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it. — Horace

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable. — Horace

He is praised by some, blamed by others. — Horace

Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.] — Horace

Horace Quotes About Life

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. — Horace

Life gives nothing to man without labor. — Horace

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

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. — Horace

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. — Horace

Life is largely a matter of expectation. — Horace

Be smart, drink your wine. — Horace

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile. — Horace

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. — Horace

He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.] — Horace

Horace Quotes About Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. — Horace

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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts. — Horace

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

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. — Horace

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it. — Horace

Remember to be calm in adversity. — Horace

A good resolve will make any port. — Horace

In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity. — Horace

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. — Horace

Horace Quotes About Death

It 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. — Horace

Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.] — Horace

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. — Horace

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. — Horace

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. — Horace

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death. — Horace

One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all. — Horace

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. — Horace

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. — Horace

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. — Horace

Horace Quotes About Mind

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind. — Horace

The pen is the tongue of the mind. — Horace

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. — Horace

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. — Horace

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? — Horace

The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat., Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.] — Horace

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. — Horace

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you. — Horace

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.] — Horace

Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments. — Horace

Horace Quotes About Free

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. — Horace

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. — Horace

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. — Horace

We are free to yield to truth. — Horace

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. — Horace

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe. — Horace

What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty! — Horace

Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself. — Horace

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished. — Horace

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin. — Horace

Horace Famous Quotes And Sayings

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. — Horace

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed. — Horace

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

Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even. — Horace

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. — Horace

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. — Horace

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. — Horace

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? — Horace

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. — Horace

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. — Horace

Whatever advice you give, be short. — Horace

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. — Horace

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. — Horace

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. — Horace

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance. — Horace

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. — Horace

Gold will be slave or master. — Horace

Anger is a brief lunacy. — Horace

A word once uttered can never be recalled. — Horace

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. — Horace

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames. — Horace

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. — Horace

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. — Horace

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.] — Horace

Make a good use of the present. — Horace

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. — Horace

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last. — Horace

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. — Horace

The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them. — Horace

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties. — Horace

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. — Horace

Nature is harmony in discord. — Horace

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. — Horace

Mistakes are their own instructors — Horace

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.] — Horace

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

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. — Horace

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. — Horace

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury. — Horace

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. — Horace

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom. — Horace

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal. — Horace

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. — Horace

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were — Horace

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me. — Horace

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while. — Horace

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. — Horace

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.] — Horace

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? — Horace

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] — Horace

Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.] — Horace

Tear thyself from delay. — Horace

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. — Horace

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. — Horace

Being, be bold and venture to be wise. — Horace

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can. — Horace

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.] — Horace

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice. — Horace

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. — Horace

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. — Horace

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor. — Horace

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. — Horace

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits. — Horace

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. — Horace

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

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. — Horace

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. — Horace

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform. — Horace

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more. — Horace

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? — Horace

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. — Horace

Life Lessons by Horace

1. Horace taught that moderation and balance are essential for a meaningful life, encouraging us to find a balance between our work and leisure.
2. He also taught us to appreciate the simple pleasures of life, reminding us to take time to enjoy the beauty of nature and the company of friends.
3. Finally, Horace's poetry reminds us to be mindful of our actions and words, and to strive to be the best version of ourselves.