Horace Quotes

If you can realistically render
a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint
a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck?

Now is the time to drink!

Quae caret ora cruore nostro?

Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

Nil mortalibus ardui est

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;

O my brave men! Stout hearts of mine!
who often have suffered worse calamities with me,
Let us now drown your cares in wine.
Tomorrow we venture once again upon the boundless sea.

O matre pulchra filia pulchrior

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Whatever advice you give, be brief.