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
truth errors development
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
inspirational success reading
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
inspirational inspiring education
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
perseverance sacrifice self
Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
inspirational happiness color
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
men views forever
Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.
heart helping-others self
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
education safety political
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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.