Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. This Horace quotes will motivate you.
Best Horace Quotes
- “Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” ~ Horace
- “Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.” ~ Horace
- “We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.” ~ Horace
- “Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.” ~ Horace
- “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.” ~ Horace
- “Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.” ~ Horace
- “A good scare is worth more than good advice.” ~ Horace
- “The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.” ~ Horace
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“Wisdom at times is found in folly.” ~ Horace
- “He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.” ~ Horace
- “Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.” ~ Horace
- “Be modest in speech, but excel in action.” ~ Horace
- “Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.” ~ Horace
- “Life is largely a matter of expectation.” ~ Horace
- “Rule your mind or it will rule you.” ~ Horace
- “Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?” ~ Horace
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“Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.” ~ Horace
- “Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.” ~ Horace
- “They change their skies,
but not their souls
who run across the sea.” ~ Horace - “Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.” ~ Horace
- “The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.” ~ Horace
- “He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.” ~ Horace
- “As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it” ~ Horace
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“No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.” ~ Horace
- “Mistakes are their own instructors.” ~ Horace, Horace quotes on mistakes
- “If it is well with your belly, chest, and feet – the wealth of kings can’t give you more.” ~ Horace
- “Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.” ~ Horace
- “The common people are but ill judges of a man’s merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.” ~ Horace
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“Remember to be calm in adversity.” ~ Horace
- “There is a fault common to all singers. When they’re among friends and are asked to sing they don’t want to, and when they’re not asked to sing they never stop.” ~ Horace
- “Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.” ~ Horace
- “If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.” ~ Horace
- “Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.” ~ Horace
- “Get money first; virtue comes after.” ~ Horace
- “Virtue consists in fleeing vice.” ~ Horace
- “Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.” ~ Horace
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“Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.” ~ Horace
- “He who is greedy is always in want.” ~ Horace
- “You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.” ~ Horace
- “Whatever advice you give, be short.” ~ Horace
- “Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.” ~ Horace
- “Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.” ~ Horace
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“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.” ~ Horace
- “What’s well begun is half done.” ~ Horace
- “A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.” ~ Horace
- “Don’t just think, do.” ~ Horace
- “When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.” ~ Horace
- “Splendidly mendacious.
[Lat., Splendide mendax.]” ~ Horace - “It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity” ~ Horace
- “Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.” ~ Horace
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“In times of stress, be bold and valiant.” ~ Horace
- “Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. … Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.” ~ Horace
- “Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.” ~ Horace
- “He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!” ~ Horace
- “He appears mad indeed but to a few because the majority is infected with the same disease.” ~ Horace
