Make a good use of the present. Horace More Quotes by Horace More Quotes From Horace I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). Horace distance hate silence It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor. Horace labor Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start Horace capture reader dull My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. Horace inquiry care truth Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. Horace break-through gold stones Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. Horace parent literature writing Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! Horace fleeting aging years Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. Horace ancestor crime battle Faults are soon copied. Horace faults Who has self-confidence will lead the rest. Horace self-confidence confidence self The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God. Horace deny abstinence men He, that holds fast the golden mean, Horace doors men mean It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common. Horace economy politics common The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget. Horace latin forget men Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. Horace ridicule remember men A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them. Horace shoes feet travel It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. Horace teenager inspirational men The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. Horace misers gains use He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel. Horace failing speak men Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever. Horace gratitude cheer appreciation