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
wine worry smooth
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
teaching mind vim
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
art wine glasses
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
blessed grateful hands
Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.
art men preparation
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
nature pitchforks nevertheless
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
father injustice sin
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
littles virtue economy
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
men greed want
The covetous man is ever in want.
war two evil
In love there are two evils: war and peace.
sea sky soul
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)
hate i-hate irreverent
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
wall doors fire
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
hero night agamemnon
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.