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
death running law
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
sometimes worthy
Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.
add tomorrow helping
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
sullen modesty silent
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
cutting punishment complaining
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
gay sorrow sorrowful
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
food common hungry
A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.
opposites trying faults
When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
wisdom men world
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
gold slave masters
Gold will be slave or master.
music faults singers
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
self discipline mind
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
crazy writing men
The man is either crazy or he is a poet.
political fickle vote
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.