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
life success money
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
freedom yield
We are free to yield to truth.
latin voice together
When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.
latin forests
Don't carry logs into the forest.
anger men lawyer
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
men mad insanity
I teach that all men are mad.
grief funeral littles
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
judging judgement guilty
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
humor matter jest
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
latin wish belts
He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.
country country-love able
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
latin
I was what you are, you will be what I am.
latin middle middle-ground
There is a middle ground in things.
latin bronze lasting
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.