# Horace's most famous quotes (with the Latin and the line)

"Carpe diem", "Sapere aude", "Anger is a brief madness" and "Pale Death knocks with equal foot…": the sayings of the Roman poet Horace still in circulation two thousand years later, with the Latin original and the exact place in the Odes, Epistles, Satires or Ars Poetica.

- 163 votes · 22 items
- Jan 28, 2021 · cacharrero_mendoza
- https://even.best/en/l/5124/horace-s-most-famous-quotes-with-the-latin-and-the-line

## Top 22

1. **Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." (Odes I, 11).
2. **Dare to know.** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — "Sapere aude." (Epistles I, 2, 40).
3. **Remember to keep a calm mind in difficult times.** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — "Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem." (Odes II, 3).
4. **It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." (Odes III, 2).
5. **I shall not wholly die.** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — "Non omnis moriar." (Odes III, 30).
6. **He has won every vote who has blended the useful with the pleasant.** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — "Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci." (Ars Poetica 343).
7. **Anger is a brief madness.** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — "Ira furor brevis est." (Epistles I, 2, 62).
8. **As is painting, so is poetry.** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — "Ut pictura poesis." (Ars Poetica 361).
9. **Mix a little folly with your wisdom: it is sweet to play the fool at the right moment.** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — "Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: dulce est desipere in loco." (Odes IV, 12).
10. **Those who rush across the sea change their sky, not their soul.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — "Caelum, non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt." (Epistles I, 11, 27).
11. **Silver is worth less than gold, and gold less than virtue.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — "Vilius argentum est auro, virtutibus aurum." (Epistles I, 1, 52).
12. **A word once spoken cannot be taken back.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — "Nescit vox missa reverti." (Ars Poetica 390).
13. **Pale Death knocks with equal foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.** (4 · ▲7 ▼3) — "Pallida Mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres." (Odes I, 4).
14. **We are deceived by the appearance of what is right.** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — "Decipimur specie recti." (Ars Poetica 25).
15. **No one is born free of faults.** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — "Nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur." (Satires I, 3, 68).
16. **If things are bad now, they will not always be so.** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — "Non, si male nunc, et olim sic erit." (Odes II, 10).
17. **Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — "Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit." (Epistles II, 1, 156).
18. **The people hiss at me, but I applaud myself at home.** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — "Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo ipse domi." (Satires I, 1, 66).
19. **What prevents one from telling the truth with a laugh?** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — "Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?" (Satires I, 1, 24).
20. **Those who seek much lack much.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — "Multa petentibus desunt multa." (Odes III, 16).
21. **What cannot be put right is made lighter by patience.** (2 · ▲5 ▼3) — "Levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas." (Odes I, 24).
22. **Saving a man against his will is the same as killing him.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — "Invitum qui servat idem facit occidenti." (Ars Poetica 467).

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