Quote

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Difficult
Administer
Liberalism
Belongs
Properly
Economy
Politics
Common

More quotes by Horace

Image
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.
Horace
Image
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]
Horace
Image
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
Image
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]
Horace
Image
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.
Horace
Image
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
Horace
Image
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Horace
Image
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
Horace
Image
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace
Image
He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.
Horace
Image
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
Horace
Image
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
Horace
Image
That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.
Horace
Image
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
Horace
Image
I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.
Horace
Image
Believe it, future generations.
Horace
Image
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
Horace
Image
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
Horace
Image
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
Horace
Image
In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
Horace