Horace
(20 quotes)
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Horace: It depends on the point of view
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Horace: Our words
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Monday Jun 6, 2022
Horace: In search of happiness
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Tuesday Feb 8, 2022
Horace: Use humor
Humor is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues.
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Horace: Your Hour of Living
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Horace: What makes impressions upon our minds
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Horace: What suffering is
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Friday Aug 13, 2021
Horace: Wisdom and books
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Horace: Take care of your soul
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Horace: Adversity and prosperity
Adversity reveals genius,
prosperity conceals it.
Tuesday Apr 7, 2020
Horace: When life's path is steep
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
Thursday Jun 27, 2019
Horace: The effect of adversity
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Friday Mar 15, 2019
Horace: Learn to command yourself
Who then is free?
The wise man who can command himself.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2013
Horace: Your Parents
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Wednesday Oct 9, 2013
Horace: How to get everyone`s approval
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.