The Odes of Horace Quotes

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Carpe diem."

(Odes: I.11)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.

(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and
whatever days fortune will give, count them
as profit.”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Not him with great possessions should you in truth call blest; with better right does he claim the name of happy man who realizes how to make use of the gods' gifts wisely, is skilled to meet harsh poverty and endure, as one who dreads dishonor far more than death; a man like that for friends beloved, or for his country fears not to perish.”
― Quintus Horatius Flaccus, The Odes of Horace

“Nie pytaj próżno, bo nikt się nie dowie.
Jaki nam koniec gotują bogowie,
I babilońskich nie pytaj wróżbiarzy.
Lepiej tak przyjąć wszystko, jak się zdarzy.
A czy z rozkazu Jowisza ta zima,
Co teraz wichrem wełny morskie wzdyma,
Będzie ostatnia, czy też nam przysporzy
Lat jeszcze kilka tajny wyrok boży,
Nie troszcz się o to i ... klaruj swe wina.
Mknie rok za rokiem, jak jedna godzina.
Wiec łap dzień każdy, a nie wierz ni trochę
W złudnej przyszłości obietnice płoche.
~Horacy
przeł.: Henryk Sienkiewicz”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati.
seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare:
Tyrrhenum sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Dulce est desipere in loco”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem; quam minimum credula postero.”
― Horacio, Odes

“Nil mortalibus ardui est”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Quien elige una áurea medianía, obtiene tanto la seguridad que le libra de la sórdidas fealdades que cubre un techo resquebrajado como la sobriedad que libra de un palacio sometido a la envidia. En la adversidad tiene esperanza, en la prosperidad teme la suerte adversa, teniendo el corazón bien dispuesto.”
― Horacio, Odas

“Omitte mirari beatæ Fumum et opes strepitumque Romæ. ("Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.")”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Felices ter et amplius
quos inrupta tenet copula nec malis
divolsus querimoniis
suprema citius solvet amor die.”
― Horace, Odes

“one night awaits us all, and the path of death must be trodden once”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“We are but dust and shadow.”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace