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 everyday gains
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
memories men recollection
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
father parent caverns
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
inspirational wisdom fall
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
shoes feet suits
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
advice scare good-advice
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
men charity helping
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
fall fate wind
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
opportunity
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
time men years
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
wicked riches increase
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
riches firsts wealth
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
fall rain sea
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.
passion wine secret
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.