A biography for Horacehasn’t been written yet.
“Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.”
“In adversity remember to keep an even mind.”
“It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.”
“While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.”
“A word once uttered can never be recalled.”
“Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.”
“It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.”
“Labor diligently to increase your property.”
“The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.”
“We are free to yield to truth.”
“Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.”
“Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)”
“A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.”
“Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.”
“Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.”
“Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.”
“Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)”
“Anger is a brief madness.”
“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
“Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?”