Horace Quotes

Horace  (65-8BC) [Quintus Horacius Flaccus] Roman Latin Poet, Satirist

These Horace quotes and sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. 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 [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]


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


A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]


Labour diligently to increase your property. - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]


Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]


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 [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]


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


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


Drawing is the true test of art. - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]