Horace Quotes

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace

Small, Feet, Shoe

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace

Great, Before, Against

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

Before, Living, Run

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace

Him, Small, Story

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace

Mind, Remember, Adversity

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
Horace

Struggle, Become, Obscure

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

Public, Eye, Kept

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Horace

Born, Silly, Mountains

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
Horace

Beautiful, Nothing, Point

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace

Cannot, Once, Word

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.
Horace

Travel, Through, Before

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Horace

Mind, Tongue, Pen

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Horace

Power, Daring, Poet

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Horace

Someone, Person, Silent

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Horace

Wise, Free, Himself

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Horace

Mind, Why, Weak

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Horace

Avoid, Wicked, Sloth

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

Happiness, Mind, Within

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace

Mind, Down, Body

Every old poem is sacred.
Horace

Old, Sacred, Poem

Fidelity is the sister of justice.
Horace

Justice, Sister, Fidelity

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Horace

Everyone, Useful, Pleasant

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Horace

Death, Whose, Lived

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace

Done, Made, Beginning

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Horace

Within, Innocent, Wall

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Biography

Nationality: Roman

Type: Poet

Born: 65 BC

Died: 8 BC

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