In times of stress, be bold and valiant. Horace More Quotes by Horace More Quotes From Horace Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future. Horace seize-the-moment seize-the-day littles Small things become small folks. Horace small-things folks Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release. Horace wine heart thinking It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically. Horace difficult universal speak I have completed a monument more lasting than brass. Horace brass monument lasting Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel. Horace pleasure too-much good-things Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe. Horace passion grief fall A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips. Horace wife money men Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. Horace poet freedom claims To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way. Horace happiness men way There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. Horace virtue limits mean Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. Horace rate poetry men That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you. Horace pleasure poetry giving I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets. Horace tribes poetry order You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original. Horace wells made ordinary Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished. Horace passion wise character Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. Horace flow blessing firsts Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. Horace bliss court kings He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last. Horace shoes choices men Anger is brief madness Horace madness
