Horace Quotes

Why do you laugh? Change the name and the story is about you

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.

(Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born)

in pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret
et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.
(Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back,
Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.)

Not him with great possessions should you in truth call blest; with better right does he claim the name of happy man who realizes how to make use of the gods' gifts wisely, is skilled to meet harsh poverty and endure, as one who dreads dishonor far more than death; a man like that for friends beloved, or for his country fears not to perish.

Struggling to be brief I become obscure.

"Omitte mirari beatæ Fumum et opes strepitumque Romæ. ("Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.")"

Anger is a brief madness.

Ey benimle bu kadar güç işler görmüş yiğitler,
Bugün, üzüntülerinizi şarapla giderin;
Yarın, engin denize açılacağız

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

'Tis not sufficient to combine
Well-chosen words in a well-ordered line.

What is to prevent one from telling truth as he laughs, even as teachers sometimes give cookies to children to coax them into learning their A B C?

Dulce est desipere in loco