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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! — Horace · 23 BCCease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. — Horace · 23 BCHe will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine." — Horace · 23 BC
Poetry3 quotes
I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. — Horace · 23 BCIf you want me to weep, you must first feel grief yourself. — Horace · 19 BCNo verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace · 20 BC
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. — Horace · 23 BCMix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment. — Horace · 11 BC
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. — Horace · 14 BCWhat do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents' age (worse than our grandparents') has produced us, more worthless still, who will soon give rise to a yet more vicious generation. — Horace · 23 BC
Envy2 quotes
The covetous man is ever in want. — Horace · 20 BCHow comes it, Maecenas, that no man living is content with the lot that either his choice has given him, or chance has thrown in his way, but each has praise for those who follow other paths? — Horace · 35 BC
Thrice blessed (and more) are they whom an unbroken bond holds and whose love, never strained by nasty quarrels, will not slip until their dying day. — Horace · 23 BCIt is not he who has many possessions that you should call blessed: he more rightly deserves that name who knows how to use the gods' gifts wisely and to endure harsh poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death. — Horace · 11 BC
Humor2 quotes
Humor very often cuts the knot of serious questions more trenchantly and successfully than severity. — Horace · 34 BCWhy should truth not be impress'd Beneath the cover of a jest. — Horace · 34 BC
What do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents' age (worse than our grandparents') has produced us, more worthless still, who will soon give rise to a yet more vicious generation. — Horace · 23 BCOur fathers' age was worse than our grandfathers'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. — Horace · 23 BC
Happy the man who, far away from business, like the race of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. — Horace · 30 BCThis was among my prayers: a piece of land not so very large, where a garden should be and a spring of ever-flowing water near the house, and a bit of woodland as well as these. — Horace · 30 BC
Time2 quotes
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. — Horace · 14 BCWhile we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future. — Horace · 23 BC
The covetous man is ever in want. — Horace · 20 BC
Happy the man who, far away from business, like the race of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. — Horace · 30 BC
Alcohol1 quote
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace · 20 BC
Art1 quote
I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. — Horace · 23 BC
I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. — Horace · 23 BC
Carpe diem1 quote
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future. — Horace · 23 BC
They change their clime, not their disposition, who run across the sea. — Horace · 20 BC
Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers. — Horace · 23 BC
Decline1 quote
Our fathers' age was worse than our grandfathers'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. — Horace · 23 BC
It is the mountaintop that the lightning strikes. — Horace · 23 BC
Lovely and honorable it is to die for one's country. — Horace · 23 BC
Education1 quote
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. — Horace · 14 BC
I put together and collect things which I will soon be able to draw upon. — Horace · 20 BC
Farming1 quote
Happy the man who, far away from business, like the race of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. — Horace · 30 BC
Fate1 quote
Do not try to find out-we're forbidden to know-what end the gods may bestow on me or you. — Horace · 23 BC
The people are a many-headed beast. — Horace · 20 BC
Freedom1 quote
Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor. — Horace · 20 BC
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! — Horace · 20 BC
Do not try to find out-we're forbidden to know-what end the gods may bestow on me or you. — Horace · 23 BC
Gratitude1 quote
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. — Horace · 23 BC