Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. Horace More Quotes by Horace More Quotes From Horace Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. Horace authorship care writing Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow. Horace present-day enjoy happy Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. Horace rewards effort men Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow. Horace seize-the-day morrow carpe-diem Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence. Horace essence soul yesterday Amiability shines by its own light. Horace shining light It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. Horace age gone laughing I am not what I once was. Horace change This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden Horace garden land prayer Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. Horace purple giving two A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. Horace future darkness wise Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Horace venture gambling soul We get blows and return them. Horace return blow Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. Horace strive difficult heaven Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. Horace opposites two lying Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger. Horace hopes-and-fears anxiety Busy idleness urges us on. Horace inertia urges busy Luck cannot change birth. Horace birth luck To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it. Horace favour court men Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. Horace age giving son
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