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“It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.”
Horace
“The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.”
Horace
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”
Horace
“We are free to yield to truth.”
Horace
“Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.”
Horace
“He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.”
Horace
“I teach that all men are mad.”
Horace
“You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.”
Horace
“ He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.”
Horace
“Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.”
Horace
“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”
Horace
“Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.”
Horace
“I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.”
Horace
“Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.”
Horace
“Every old poem is sacred.”
Horace
“No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.”
Horace
“Poets wish to profit or to please.”
Horace
“The man is either mad, or he is making verses.”
Horace
“Make a good use of the present.”
Horace
“The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.”
Horace
“It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.”
Horace
“Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.”
Horace
“Labor diligently to increase your property.”
Horace
“Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.”
Horace
“Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.”
Horace
“Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.”
Horace
“In adversity remember to keep an even mind.”
Horace
“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”
Horace
“If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.”
Horace
“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”
Horace
