Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace quotes and words of wisdom

"I am not what I was when dear Cinara was my queen."
Found in the topic Last.

"The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn. ?Dente lupus, cornu taurus petit"
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."
Found in the topic Hope.

"Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour."
Found in the topic Watch.

"It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit."
Found in the topic Ancestors.

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."
Found in the topic Adversity.

"Nothing"s beautiful from every point of view."
Found in the topic Beauty.

"For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughed at, than that which he approves and than that which he approves and reveres."
Found in the topic Alone.

"A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity And fears in prosperity."
Found in the topic Prepare.

"He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away."
Found in the topic Satisfied.

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
Found in the topic Life.

"The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime."
Found in the topic Afraid.

"When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars."
Found in the topic Disagree.

"Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were."
Found in the topic Virtue.

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; A mistress, if thou knowest not."
Found in the topic Money.

"To know all things is not permitted."
Found in the topic Know.

"Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy."
Found in the topic Privacy.

"The covetous man is ever in want."
Found in the topic Envy.

"Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly."
Found in the topic Book.

"I strive to be brief, and become obscure."
Found in the topic Breeding.

Interesting Quotes

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.Douglas Adams - English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.Henry Louis Mencken