The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACEThe populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACEThe years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACEA good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACETo please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACEWhere there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACESad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACENor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACEThe explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACEI have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACEThe envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACEWho prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACEWith you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACEHalf is done when the beginning is done.
HORACEJoys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACEWhat prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACEMoney, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE