Horace Doe Quotations

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

One Sallow does not make Summer.

Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.