Horace
Roman poet, 65-8 BC
16 quotes.
Quotes by Horace
- A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
- Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
- Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
- As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
- Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
- 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.
- Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
- Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
- In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
- Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
- Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
- No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
- Rule your mind or it will rule you.
- Rule your mind, which, if it is not your servant, is your master.
- The mind that is cheerful at present will have no solicitude for the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a smile.
- Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.