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
greek-poet time
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
among common greek-poet
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
fit fortune greek-poet large shoe small trips
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
greek-poet poems poetry written
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
greek-poet venture
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
greek-poet
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
greek-poet hour rustic waits
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
greek-poet
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
begun greek-poet half
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
greek-poet stake
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
finally material morally victory
Finally we have a victory, not only morally but also in a material sense,
falls force judgment
Force without judgment falls of its own weight.
folly greeks
For every folly of their princes, the Greeks feel the lash.
wise military venture
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.