If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. Horace More Quotes by Horace More Quotes From Horace I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. Horace shelter storm loyalty The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory. Horace lessons may memories Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. Horace glorious sweet country All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches. Horace earth names heaven Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown? Horace virtue self culture Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. Horace sage may men Let him who has enough ask for nothing more. Horace sufficiency asks enough The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. Horace mortality men years A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. Horace future darkness wise Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you. Horace destiny ends trying Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. Horace wine secret men Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough. Horace satisfaction want hands If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. Horace crow envy silence In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. Horace apology writing thinking Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. Horace rome wealth noise Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly. Horace leisure wine sleep Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. Horace wrath sports war Punishment follows close on crime. Horace punishment crime Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. Horace despise pleasure pain The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. Horace sea lakes rivers
