Horace Quotes

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Now is the time to drink!

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and
whatever days fortune will give, count them
as profit.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
The surest guard is innocence:
None knew, till guilt created fear,
What darts or poisoned arrows were

What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

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

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.)

Faults are soon copied.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Struggling to be brief I become obscure.

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Horace

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Non omnis moriar