Horace Quotes

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

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

It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

The story is told of yourself.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

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

I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious.

Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum
dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita
cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus.

in pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello

You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain.

Exegi monumentum aere perennius

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.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts

Cease to ask what the morrow
will bring forth,
and set down as gain
each day that fortune grants.

If you wish people to weep, you must weep first.