Horace Quotes

ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.

[it is reason and wisdom which take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.]

The story is told of yourself.

Give me back my manly vigour, my black hair and ureceded brow
give me back the sweetness in my voice, my musical laugh,
the grief i knew in my cups when the delicious Cinara left me.

To have good sense, is the first principle and fountain of writing well.

Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.

Now is the time to drink!

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
The surest guard is innocence:
None knew, till guilt created fear,
What darts or poisoned arrows were

Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.

Exegi monumentum aere perennius

None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.

Vitanda est improba siren desidia. (One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.)

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and
whatever days fortune will give, count them
as profit.

Adsit Regula, peccatis quæ pœnas irroget æquas
Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.