Quote

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Age
Inclinations
Inclination
Longer

More quotes by Horace

Image
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Horace
Image
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
Horace
Image
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
Horace
Image
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace
Image
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
Horace
Image
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
Horace
Image
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.
Horace
Image
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
Horace
Image
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Horace
Image
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
Horace
Image
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.
Horace
Image
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
Horace
Image
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
Horace
Image
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici Expertus metuit.]
Horace
Image
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined if unasked, they never leave off.
Horace
Image
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
Horace
Image
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
Horace
Image
Drawing is the true test of art.
Horace
Image
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
Horace
Image
Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
Horace