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
heart sacrifice causes
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
education men balance
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
mind firsts influence
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.
courage character thinking
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
money honesty integrity
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
education quality infinite
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
helping-others compassion help-and-support
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
helping-others helping self-help
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
inspirational education school
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
christian wise gratitude
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.
writing wish study
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
genius may patient
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate
death fear pride
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
knowledge humans human-power
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.