A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
Horace
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Horace
Friendship Quotes
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Horace
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
Horace
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
Horace
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Horace
What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
Horace
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
Horace
Every old poem is sacred.
Horace
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Horace
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Horace
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
Horace
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Horace
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.