Horace Lt Quotations

Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

No man is born without faults.

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

The man of upright life, unstained by guilt

Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale

There are faults we would fain pardon.

Faults are soon copied.

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.