Quote

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Confusion
Throw
Create
Clear
Light
Obscure

More quotes by Horace

Image
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Horace
Image
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.
Horace
Image
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
Horace
Image
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Horace
Image
To know all things is not permitted.
Horace
Image
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace
Image
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
Horace
Image
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
Horace
Image
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.
Horace
Image
Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]
Horace
Image
No one is content with his own lot.
Horace
Image
For, once begun, Your task is easy half the work is done.
Horace
Image
A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.
Horace
Image
He who is greedy is always in want.
Horace
Image
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
Horace
Image
What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
Horace
Image
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Horace
Image
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
Horace
Image
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
Image
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Horace