Collected Meditations
Showing 108 quotesA 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
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.— Horace
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.— Horace
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.— Horace
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.— Horace
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.— Horace