“Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.”
Horace Quotes
65 BC – 8 BC
Roman lyric poet, author of the "Odes" and "Satires".
25 quotesAbout Horace on Wikipedia
“It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.”
“Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.”
“Often must you turn your pencil to erase, if you hope to write something worth a second reading.”
“A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.”
“Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.”
“Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.”
“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”
“If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.”
“Enjoy the present smiling hour, And put it out of Fortune's power.”
“Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.”
“To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
“Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium.”
“The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.”
