Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.
Horace
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Accomplish
Urges
Minds
Teaches
Battle
Anxious
Teach
Secrets
Secret
Hopes
Indolent
Art
Lifts
Unlocks
Doe
Arts
Confirms
Mind
Burden
Drunkenness
More quotes by Horace
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Horace
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Horace
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Horace
Joking apart, now let us be serious.
Horace
Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.
Horace
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
Horace
Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.
Horace
Victory is by nature superb and insulting.
Horace
God has joined the innocent with the guilty.
Horace
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
Horace
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Horace
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
Horace
The man is either crazy or he is a poet.
Horace
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
Horace
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
Horace
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
Horace
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace
To teach is to delight.
Horace
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
Horace
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
Horace
