Quote

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Wisdom
Force
Fall
Inspirational
Power
Reason
Without
Falls
Weight

More quotes by Horace

Image
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
Horace
Image
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace
Image
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
Horace
Image
Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.
Horace
Image
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
Horace
Image
Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
Horace
Image
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
Horace
Image
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
Horace
Image
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
Horace
Image
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
Horace
Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]
Horace
Image
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.
Horace
Image
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
Horace
Image
A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.
Horace
Image
Luck cannot change birth.
Horace
Image
Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
Horace
Image
To grow a philosopher's beard.
Horace
Image
I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]
Horace
Image
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
Horace
Image
We are deceived by the appearance of right.
Horace