Horace Quotes

Aequa lege Necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos;
Omne capax movet urna nomen.

Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Quae caret ora cruore nostro?

he who is greedy is always in want

Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.

Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done.

Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res
Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae.

Magnas inter opes inops.

"Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

A picture is a poem without words.

Nec satis apparet, cur versus factitet.

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