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
all-things
There is measure in all things.
lying opposites two
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
sour turns vessel
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
anxiety hopes-and-fears
Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.
men favour court
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
friendly helping assistance
Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.
poverty turns beggar
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
nuts olives hard
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
half finished
Who's started has half finished.
perfect perfect-happiness
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
limits certain mediums
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
mean wealth given
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
brass raised monument
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
advice mind superfluous
Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.