Quotes by Horace
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.