Horace Quotes

Sapere aude

An Widerständen zeigt sich das Genie des Generals, Glück verhüllt es.

Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis,
nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit.

Either stick to tradition or see that your inventions be consistent.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

La saggezza è il principio e la fonte di una bella scrittura.

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

This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist.

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

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.

Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.

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

What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.

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.)