Quote

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Birth
Whose
Death
Life
World
Unnoticed
Badly
Lived

More quotes by Horace

Image
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were
Horace
Image
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
Horace
Image
Remember to be calm in adversity.
Horace
Image
In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
Horace
Image
In love there are two evils: war and peace.
Horace
Image
The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.
Horace
Image
Don't just put it off and think about it!
Horace
Image
I shall not altogether die.
Horace
Image
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Horace
Image
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
Horace
Image
Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!
Horace
Image
Busy idleness urges us on.
Horace
Image
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
Horace
Image
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace
Image
Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.
Horace
Image
He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.
Horace
Image
He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
Horace
Image
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets ratifies and confirms our hopes thrusts the coward forth to battle eases the anxious mind of its burden instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
Horace
Image
He who is greedy is always in want.
Horace
Image
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace