Horace
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
- Horace
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
- Horace
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
- Horace
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
- Horace
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
- Horace
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
- Horace
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
- Horace
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
- Horace
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
- Horace
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
- Horace
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
- Horace
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
- Horace
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
- Horace
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
- Horace
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
- Horace
