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
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.
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.
books house room windows
A house without books is like room without windows
ball force opportunity presents
You can't force anything, but when the opportunity presents itself, if the ball was in my hands, I was going to do it.
check good money sure
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
hurt promise credit
Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.
forgiving succeed failing
Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
love-is age blind
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.