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
rumor
Nothing is swifter than rumor.
hope reaching
The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.
Money amassed either serves us or rules us.
literature
Leave the rest to the gods.
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
men law judging
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
No one is content with his own lot.
rights attention command
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
rooms be-careful retiring
Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.
change party principles
One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
pain fear loneliness
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
pain fear loneliness
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
steps
There is no retracing our steps.