Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]
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
Wrap
Wraps
Virtue
More quotes by Horace
He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses) but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]
Horace
Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
Horace
The words can not return.
Horace
A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
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
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
Horace
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Horace
Busy idleness urges us on.
Horace
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
Horace
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
Horace
O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]
Horace
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
Horace
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
Horace
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
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
Horace
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
Horace
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Horace
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Horace
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Horace
I shall not altogether die.
Horace