Horace Quotes

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Pulvis et umbra sumus.

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

Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
cum ridere voles Epicuri de grege porcum.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

carpe diem (seize the day)

Enjoy! Enjoy!

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Mingle a dash of folly with your wisdom.

Hopeful in adversity, fearful
In prosperity, the well-armed soul
Confronts its fate.

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.

(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

Auream quisquis mediocritatem diligit, tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.

Nequiquam deus abscidit
Prudens Oceano dissociabili
Terras, si tamen impiae
Non tangenda rates transiliunt vada.

Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;

Let him live under the open sky, and dangerously.