Quote

For, once begun, Your task is easy half the work is done.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Task
Tasks
Half
Easy
Done
Work
Begun

More quotes by Horace

Image
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
Horace
Image
Dull winter will re-appear.
Horace
Image
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Horace
Image
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace
Image
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
Horace
Image
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Horace
Image
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
Horace
Image
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.
Horace
Image
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
Horace
Image
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
Horace
Image
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.
Horace
Image
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Horace
Image
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
Horace
Image
This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden
Horace
Image
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.
Horace
Image
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
Horace
Image
We are free to yield to truth.
Horace
Image
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Horace
Image
Amiability shines by its own light.
Horace
Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
Horace