Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (Roman Poet)

Horace (65–8 BCE,) fully Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was a Roman poet of the Augustan age. A notable satirist and literary critic, he is best known for his Satires (c.35 BCE,) Epodes (c.30 BCE,) Odes (c.23 BCE,) Epistles (c.20 BCE,) and Ars Poetica (c.19 BCE; The Art of Poetry)—these literary classics have been the cornerstones of Western poetry.

Much is known about Horace’s life from a biography by Suetonius and Horace’s own testimony. Born in Venusia (modern-day Venosa in southwest Italy) to a former slave, Horace was sent to Rome and then Athens for an education matching that of a usual upper-class Roman of the time. In Athens, Horace joined Brutus’s army as a junior officer. However, with the fall of Brutus, Horace’s family lost much of its property. Horace returned to Italy under a general amnesty, wrote his first poems, and made friends with Virgil, Varius Rufus, and Gaius Maecenas.

Horace’s standing as the most significant Roman lyric poet rests on the excellence of form revealed by the Odes, and on the depth and detail of his self-portraiture in his literary works. He was considered the principal authority on the composition of poetry; his Ars Poetica set the standards for poetry to govern literary criticism even in the present day.

Horace’s proficient mastery of a wide variety of lyric forms is matched both by the wealth of his subject matter—ranging from politics to love, poetry to ethics, and daily life to biography—and by the multiplicity of his tones, which shift from satire to didacticism and from affection to diatribe.

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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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