black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Horace

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

Men Poetry Rate
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
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
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
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
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
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
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Horace Quotes