No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
Horace

O imitators, you slavish herd!
Horace

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

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Horace

Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
Horace

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Horace

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Horace

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace