Quote

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Poet
Poetry
Order
Pacify
Much
Touchy
Tribe
Tribes
Submit
Poets

More quotes by Horace

Image
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
Horace
Image
In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
Horace
Image
Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
Horace
Image
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace
Image
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
Horace
Image
I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
Horace
Image
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.
Horace
Image
He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
Horace
Image
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.
Horace
Image
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
Horace
Image
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
Horace
Image
O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?
Horace
Image
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
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
Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.
Horace
Image
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
Horace
Image
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
Horace
Image
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
Horace
Image
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
Horace
Image
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
Horace