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Horace Quotes

Carpe diem, seize the day!

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it’s lovely to be silly at the right moment.

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.

A picture is a poem without words.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

A good character, when established, is not easily overthrown.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The one who is able to be always free from vexation is he who knows how to create pleasure for himself from within himself.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

No man is wise enough by himself.

He who begins has half the work done.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

The foolishness of a certain class of men is the secret support of all the rest.

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

Horace Quotes part 2

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of good; and it is always ready to bubble up if you just dig.

Adversity will temper and strengthen us, but prosperity will ruin us.

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.

Whatever advice you give, be brief.

A good character, when established, is not easily overthrown.

We are onlookers, not doers of the things.

He who would be a leader must pay the price in self-discipline and moral restraint. This entails restraining his passions and ‘egocentricities.’

He conquers who endures.

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.

A person will be just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet.

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment.

The groves were God’s first temples.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

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.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for the Fatherland.

Where there is life, there is hope.

It is a sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear prosperity.

Heaven gives its beloved,–early death.

Don’t let the past steal your present.

A heart, where gladness dances, Is a well of purest wisdom.

Wine mellows the temper, squares the circle, and does in a man’s soul what the weather does in the week.

Banish the past, and live for the future’s sake.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she will ever hurry back.

A picture, even if it’s titled, is but a dumb and stammering poet until a reader becomes its living interpreter.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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