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 attitude talking
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.
bowl soul troubles within
Bacchus drowns within the bowl - Troubles that corrode the soul
crazy fools-and-foolishness
As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.
avoid cottage favourites greatness happiness kings
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
fond illusion mock
Do you hear, or does some fond illusion mock me?
labor mountains mouse ridiculous
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
eating flavor pleasure
The pleasure of eating is not in the costly flavor but in yourself.
asking count everyday fortune grants happen refrain
Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
pleasure profit reader vote won
He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.
deal great poet tribe
I put up with a great deal to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
artful cost forming instead management recommend words
Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones
city country distant oh praise rome stars
In Rome you long for the country; in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars
city country distant oh praise rome stars
In Rome you long for the country; in the country oh inconstant! you praise the distant city to the stars
moral-lessons lessons moral
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.