Horace Quotes & Sayings

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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [La., Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus Tam cari capitis?] - Horace



I am not what I once was. [La., Non sum qualis eram.] - Horace



A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. - Horace



Labour diligently to increase your property. - Horace



Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. - Horace



He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [La., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.] - Horace



Does he council you better who bids you, 'Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ? - Horace



In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna. [La., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.] - Horace



Drawing is the true test of art. - Horace