Horace Quotes About Heaven
-
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
→ -
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.
→ -
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
→ -
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]
→ -
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]
→ -
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
→ -
By the favour of the heavens
→ -
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
→ -
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]
→ -
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
→ -
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
→ -
When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.
→
Related Authors
-
Plautus Playwright -
Tibullus Poet -
Ovid Poet -
Pindar Poet -
Sophocles Playwright -
Homer Author -
Wilfred Owen Poet -
Juvenal Poet -
Propertius Poet -
Marcus Tullius Cicero Philosopher -
Epicurus Philosopher -
Catullus Poet -
Lucretius Poet -
Virgil Poet -
Livy Historian -
Augustus Roman emperor -
Jonathan Swift Pamphleteer -
Seneca the Younger Philosopher -
Aristotle Philosopher -
Sappho Lyric poet