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
running nature danger
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
mean envy golden
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
power fancy poet
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
giving water long
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
race crime humans
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
world birth unnoticed
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
love envied
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
integrity way sin
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
land oxen yoke
Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.
laughter joy love-and-laughter
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
each-day gains morrow
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
heart humanity victory
I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
light shining splendor
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
doe thorns ifs
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed