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Horace

97 quotes

• “Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum: Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur hora.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, cum ridere voles Epicuri de grege porcum.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (la)

• “Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (la)

• “Pauper enim non est, cui rerum suppetit usus. si ventri bene, si lateri est pedibusque tuis, nil divitiae poterunt regales addere maius.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Qualem commendes, etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (la)

• “Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Interdum volgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgil (misattributed)

• “Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Natales grate numeras?”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter adsuitur pannus.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (la)

• “Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Format enim Natura prius nos intus ad omnem Fortunarum habitum, juvat, aut impellit ad iram, Aut ad humum moerore gravi deducit, et angit.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Difficile est proprie communia dicere.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus Interpres.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Cf. Matthew Paris (AD 1237): Fuderunt partum montes: en ridiculus mus.

  Also quoted by: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (la)

• “In medias res.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Et quae Desperat tractata nitescere posse relinquit.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Grais ingenium, Grais dedit ore rotundo Musa loqui, præter laudem nullius avaris. . .”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles: omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “... Siquid tamen olim scripseris, in Maeci descendat iudicis auris et patris et nostras, nonumque prematur in annum membranis intus positis; delere licebit quod non edideris; nescit uox missa reuerti.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sunt delicta tamen quibus ignovisse velimus.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nec satis apparet, cur versus factitet.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Abnormis sapiens crassaque Minerva.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ab ovo Usque ad mala.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Absentem qui rodit amicum, Qui non defendit alio culpante, solutos Qui captat risus hominum, famamque dicacis; Fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere Qui nequit, hic niger est, hunc tu, Romane, caveto.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Adsit Regula, peccatis quæ pœnas irroget æquas Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared-for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus's herd.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “If you wish me to weep, you yourself must feel grief.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “The mountains will be in labour; an absurd mouse will be born.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source