Horace Quotes

Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.

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.

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

Non satis est puris versum perscribere verbis.

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

Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

Often must you turn your pencil to erase, if you hope to write something worth a second reading.

Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturus.

Bona pars hominum est decepta cupidine falso 'nil satis est', inquit, 'quia tanti quantum habeas sis.'

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

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?

Quamquam ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.

Tomorrow we will be back on the vast ocean.

Cras ingens iterabimus aequor