Famous Quotes

Quotes by Horace

• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
• Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
• Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
• Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
• Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
• Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
• The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
• The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
• The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
• The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
• The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
• The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
• To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
• To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
• Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
• Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
• We are free to yield to truth.
• When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
• Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
• You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
• You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
• You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.