Quote

Leave the rest to the gods.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Gods
Rest
Leave
Literature

More quotes by Horace

Image
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace
Image
Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]
Horace
Image
The words can not return.
Horace
Image
Tear thyself from delay.
Horace
Image
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
Horace
Image
Be smart, drink your wine.
Horace
Image
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
Horace
Image
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
Horace
Image
Painters and poets, you say, have always had an equal license in bold invention. We know we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
Horace
Image
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
Horace
Image
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Horace
Image
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
Horace
Image
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
Horace
Image
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
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
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
Horace
Image
Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
Horace
Image
I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
Horace
Image
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
Horace
Image
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
Horace