Horace Quotes

The story is told of yourself.

Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

Quis scit an adiciant hodiernae crastina summae
tempora di superi?
Cuncta manus auidas fugient heredis, amico
quae dederis animo.

Many words shall revive, which now have fallen off; and many which are now in esteem shall fall off,

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.

(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Wer lächelt, statt zu toben, ist immer der Stärkere.

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers

Quae caret ora cruore nostro?

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

Vitanda est improba siren desidia. (One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.)

Moreover, you can’t stand so much as an hour of your own company
or spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truant
or fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.
But it’s no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels

Dalam keadaan sengsara, jangan lupa mempertahankan kemantapan jiwa.

more brave in despising gold as yet undiscovered, and so best situated while hidden in the earth, than in forcing it out for the uses of mankind, with a hand ready to make depredations on everything that is sacred.

nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus