Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACELife gives nothing to man without labor.
More Horace Quotes
-
-
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 -
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE -
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE -
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE -
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE -
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE -
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE -
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE -
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE -
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE -
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE -
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE -
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE -
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 -
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE