Home / Quotes / Quote by Horace

Quote by Horace

“Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.”

Quote by Horace

Author

Horace, a renowned Roman poet, is celebrated for his elegant Latin style and profound philosophical thoughts. His works span a variety of genres, from satire to odes, and have had a profound impact on literature throughout history. more

You May Also Like

“Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.”

People Wine Cures Vineyards Making People Happy Funny Wine Penicillin Wine Making Witty Wine

Author:Alexander Fleming

“Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.”

Ifs Thinking Romance Emotional Built Wine Ritual Food And Wine

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.”

Wine Preparation

Author:Basil Bunting

“I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.”

Half Food Doctors Wine Glasses Each Day Recommendations Wine Glass Best Wine Wine With Friends Wine And Friends

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.”

Humans Mouths Rivers Wine Human History Grapes Tasting Vineyards Great Wine Best Wine Old Wine Savoring Wine Tasting Wine And Age Droplets

Author:Clifton Fadiman

“We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.”

Littles Sacrifice Offers Equal Little Things Philanthropy

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.”

Ideas Struggle Sacrifice Succeed Endure No Idea Expenses Strain Life Struggle Without Sacrifice

Author:Ernest Renan

“The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.”

Animal Sacrifice Cat Teeth Merit Acquire Philanthropy Mice

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.”

Sacrifice Sacred Productions Without Sacrifice Sacred Things

Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939

Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939

“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.”

World Life Ends Whole Earth Death Evil Sacrifice Blood Immense Restraint Extinction Living Things Altars Respite

Author:Joseph de Maistre