Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
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
Fortune
Favours
Playing
Wanton
Game
Favour
Games
Shifting
Ever
Uncertain
Cruel
Task
Tasks
Delighting
More quotes by Horace
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Horace
This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.
Horace
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
Horace
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Horace
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]
Horace
Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
Horace
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
Horace
Money is to be sought for first of all virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est virtus post nummos.]
Horace
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Horace
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
Horace
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.
Horace
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Horace
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.
Horace
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Horace
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
Horace
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Horace
Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
Horace
Joys do not fall to the rich alone nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
Horace
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.
Horace
