Horace Quotes

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta
percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles:
omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Atqui si vitiis mediocribus ac mea paucis
mendosa est natura, alioqui recta, velut si
egregio inspersos reprehendas corpore naevos,
si neque avaritiam neque sordes nec mala lustra
obiciet vere quisquam mihi, purus et insons,
ut me collaudem, si et vivo carus amicis...
at hoc nunc
laus illi debetur et a me gratia maior.
nil me paeniteat sanum patris huius, eoque
non, ut magna dolo factum negat esse suo pars,
quod non ingenuos habeat clarosque parentis,
sic me defendam.

Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus
Interpres.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Dalam keadaan sengsara, jangan lupa mempertahankan kemantapan jiwa.

Treacherous ashes hide
The fires through which you stride

Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.

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

one night awaits us all, and the path of death must be trodden once

Perhaps you know how to draw a cypress tree: so what, if you've been given money to paint a sailor plunging from a shipwreck
in despair?

"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
("They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea")"

Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.

Carpe Diem