Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
education people want
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
moral mature manners
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
education inspire height
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
teacher teaching long
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
life happiness attitude
A house without books is like a room without windows.
soul energy martyr
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
inspirational motivational success
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
thinking years brain
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
life death badass
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
inspiring forgiveness compassion
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
truth greatness
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
bad rather tried
I'd rather have a bad day doing something I like than have a bad day doing something I don't like. We just tried to come in here and compete.
error last precedes science
In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last
gasoline high lousy perfect quarter
The first quarter was like the perfect storm, where you had Howard Stern, high gasoline prices, and lousy (General Motors) sales.