This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Singing
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Work
Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that Fate allows you.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Joy
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Thinking, People
The body oppressed by excesses, bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine Spirit we had been endowed with.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Excess
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Poor
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Speaking, Speakers
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Freedom
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Money
Better to accept whatever happens.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Acceptance
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Vice, Virtue
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Mediocrity
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Punishment
In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Courage, Stress
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Strength
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Brevity
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Reality, Opportunities
Fools, through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Courage
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Tourism, Travel
Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Management
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Suffering
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Satisfaction
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Goals
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Labor
Wisdom at times is found in folly.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Wisdom
One night awaits all, and death’s path must be trodden once and for all.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Death
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Discipline
Shun the inquisitive, for you will be sure to find him leaky. Open ears do not keep conscientiously what has been intrusted to them, and a word once spoken flies, never to be recalled.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Gossip
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Difficulties, Challenges, Opinions, Adversity
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Topics: Words
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