black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Horace

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Horace Quotes