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
hurt eye years
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
inspirational adversity genius
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
sweet mind occasions
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
silence has-beens
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
genius host calamity
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
safety may moments
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
money greed want
He who is greedy is always in want.
happiness men mind
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
wise wisdom freedom
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
inspirational-life expectations matter
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
wine water drinkers
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
management anger-management madness
Anger is short-lived madness.
inspirational adversity genius
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
thanksgiving gratitude being-thankful
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.