Quote

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Academe
Groves
Grove
Seek
Truth

More quotes by Horace

Image
The grammarians are arguing.
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
Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]
Horace
Image
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
Horace
Image
To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
Horace
Image
We are all compelled to take the same road from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]
Horace
Image
Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
Horace
Image
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
Horace
Image
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
Image
For, once begun, Your task is easy half the work is done.
Horace
Image
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
Horace
Image
Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
Horace
Image
The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]
Horace
Image
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
Horace
Image
Now is the time for drinking now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
Horace
Image
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace
Image
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
Horace
Image
Money is to be sought for first of all virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est virtus post nummos.]
Horace
Image
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
Horace
Image
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined if unasked, they never leave off.
Horace