And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. Horace More Quotes by Horace More Quotes From Horace I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. Horace reign praise sky Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. Horace poet ordinary men Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. Horace beggar turns poverty There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut. Horace olives hard nuts The man is either mad or his is making verses. Horace mad poet men There is no retracing our steps. Horace steps What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny. Horace parent age doe He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. Horace poverty poor use There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist. Horace mediums certain limits 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 envy lazy horse The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. Horace mountain birth littles The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment. Horace hawks hook pits The bowl dispels corroding cares. Horace bowls care The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. Horace excess body mind To pile Pelion upon Olympus. Horace olympus The arrow will not always find the mark intended. Horace arrows mark Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect. Horace braces training teaching Take heed lest you stumble. Horace heed Strength without judgment falls by its own weight. Horace judgment weight fall Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. Horace silver virtue gold
