black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

Horace

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Horace Quotes