Horace Quotes

Principally, I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartedly love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth …

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.

Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.